Large-scale catastrophic disturbance regimes can mask climate change impacts on vegetation – a reply to Pederson et al. (2014)

Global Change Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2018, Pages e395-e396

  Abrams, Marc D ^a   Nowacki, Gregory J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; disturbance; eastern US; fire; global change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; HUMAN; MASK; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; MASKS; TREES;

EID: 84923037993     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12828     Document Type: Letter

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