Impacts of Water Stress on Forest Recovery and Its Interaction with Canopy Height.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change is leading to an increase in the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought events, which can affect the functioning of forest ecosystems. Because human activities such as afforestation and forest attributes such as canopy height may exhibit considerable spatial differences, such differences may alter the recovery paths of drought-impacted forests. To accurately assess how climate affects forest recovery, a quantitative evaluation on the effects of forest attributes and their possible interaction with the intensity of water stress is required. Here, forest recovery following extreme drought events was analyzed for Yunnan Province, southwest China. The variation in the recovery of forests with different water availability and canopy heights was quantitatively assess

SUBMITTER: Xu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025017 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature