Integrating ecophysiology and forest landscape models to improve projections of drought effects under climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 843-856

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a   De Bruijn, Arjan M G ^a,b   Pangle, Robert E ^c   Limousin, Jean Marc ^c   Mcdowell, Nate G ^d   Pockman, William T ^c   Sturtevant, Brian R ^a   Muss, Jordan D ^d   Kubiske, Mark E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Purdue University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition for light; Drought; Forest landscape disturbance and succession model; LANDIS II; Pi on juniper ecosystem; PnET Succession; Tree mortality; Water stress

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORTALITY; SUCCESSION; WATER STRESS;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS;

CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; JUNIPERUS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; JUNIPERUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 84923141010     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12713     Document Type: Article

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