Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 669-672

  McDowell, Nathan G ^a   Allen, Craig D ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; DARCY LAW; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PREDICTION; VASCULAR PLANT;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84932121552     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2641     Document Type: Article

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