Scale dependence of disease impacts on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) mortality in the southwestern United States

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1835-1845

  Bell, David M ^a   Bradford, John B ^b   Lauenroth, William K ^c   Kilpatrick, A M ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Allometry; Aspen; Climate change; Competition; Disease; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Hierarchical bayesian modeling; Populus tremuloides; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SCALE EFFECT; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937019766     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1184.1     Document Type: Article

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