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1. Populus tremuloides stands continue to deteriorate after drought-incited sudden aspen decline

Author:
James J. Worrall; Andrew G. Keck; Suzanne B. Marchetti
Source:
Canadian journal of forest research = 2015 v.45 no.12 pp. 1768-1774
ISSN:
1208-6037
Subject:
forest trees; ecoregions; decline; dead wood; drought; climate change; Populus tremuloides; stand basal area; forest damage; population dynamics; Colorado; Rocky Mountain region
Abstract:
... Reports of forest damage have increased with the frequency of climatic extremes, but longer term impacts of such events on population dynamics of forest trees are generally unknown. Incited by the turn-of-the-century drought, sudden aspen decline (SAD) damaged 535 000 ha of Populus tremuloides Michx. in the Southern Rockies ecoregion of western North America. Although spread of the disease stopped ...
DOI:
10.1139/cjfr-2015-0225