Forest stand structure, productivity, and age mediate climatic effects on aspen decline
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Forest stand structure, productivity, and age mediate climatic effects on aspen decline.
Because forest stand structure, age, and productivity can mediate the impacts of climate on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) mortality, ignoring stand-scale factors limits inference on the drivers of recent sudden aspen decline. Using the proportion of aspen trees that were dead as an index of recent mortality at 841 forest inventory plots, we examined the relationship of this mortality inde...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/14-0093.1