Spatial Configuration of Drought Disturbance and Forest Gap Creation across Environmental Gradients
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Spatial Configuration of Drought Disturbance and Forest Gap Creation across Environmental Gradients
Climate change is increasing the risk of drought to forested ecosystems. Although drought impacts are often anecdotally noted to occur in discrete patches of high canopy mortality, the landscape effects of drought disturbances have received virtually no study. This study characterized the landscape configuration of drought impact patches and investigated the relationships between patch characte...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157154