If forest dynamics in Canada's west are driven mainly by competition, why did they change? Half-century evidence says: Climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 32, 2015, Pages E4340-

  Price, David T ^a   Cooke, Barry J ^a   Metsaranta, Juha M ^a   Kurz, Werner A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION; CONIFER; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LETTER; LIGHT; NUTRIENT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; TREES;

EID: 84938946448     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508245112     Document Type: Letter

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