The legacy of episodic climatic events in shaping temperate, broadleaf forests

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 599-620

  Pederson, Neil ^a,f   Dyer, James M ^b   Mcewan, Ryan W ^c   Hessl, Amy E ^d   Mock, Cary J ^e   Orwig, David A ^f   Rieder, Harald E ^a,h   Cook, Benjamin I ^g  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Closed canopy forests; Deciduous forests; Disturbance; Drought; Frost; Gap dynamics; Historical documents; Mesoscale dynamics; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CANOPY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; FROST; GAP DYNAMICS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SHADE TOLERANCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TREE RING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907800992     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1025.1     Document Type: Article

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