Tipping point of a conifer forest ecosystem under severe drought

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Huang, Kaicheng ^a,b   Yi, Chuixiang ^c,d   Wu, Donghai ^a   Zhou, Tao ^a,b   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Blanford, William J ^c   Wei, Suhua ^c   Wu, Hao ^a,b   Ling, Du ^a,b   Li, Zheng ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

drought; forests; NDVI; RWI; SPEI; tipping point

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

FORESTS; NDVI; RWI; SPEI; TIPPING POINT;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL WATER; THRESHOLD;

DROUGHT; FORESTS; GROWTH; TREES;

UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS EDULIS; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 84923675562     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024011     Document Type: Article

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