Do rising temperatures always increase forest productivity? Interacting effects of temperature, precipitation, cloudiness and soil texture on tree species growth and competition

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 97, Issue , 2017, Pages 171-183

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a   Miranda, Brian R ^a   De Bruijn, Arjan M G ^a,b   Sturtevant, Brian R ^a   Kubiske, Mark E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Purdue University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloudiness; Drought; Elevated CO2; Forest succession; LANDIS II; Mechanistic landscape model; PnET Succession; Soil water; Temperature stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027977430     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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