Environmental-mediated relationships between tree growth of black spruce and abundance of spruce budworm along a latitudinal transect in Quebec, Canada

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 213, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-63

  Fierravanti, Angelo ^a,b   Cocozza, Claudia ^a   Palombo, Caterina ^a   Rossi, Sergio ^b   Deslauriers, Annie ^b   Tognetti, Roberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Climate change; Insect population outbreaks; Synchronicity analysis; Tree growth dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GROWTH RESPONSE; INSECT; POPULATION OUTBREAK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84936149155     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.014     Document Type: Article

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