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Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

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Stephenson, Nathan L., van Mantgem, Phillip J., Bunn, Andrew G., Bruner, Howard, Harmon, Mark E., O'Connell, Kari B., Urban, Dean L., and Franklin, Jerry F.

Abstract:

At global and regional scales, tree mortality rates are positively correlated with forest net primary productivity (NPP). Yet causes of the correlation are unknown, in spite of potentially profound implications for our understanding of environmental controls of forest structure and dynamics and, more generally, our understanding of broad-scale environmental controls...

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BRUNER,3 MARK E. HARMON,3 KARI B. O’CONNELL,3 DEAN L. URBAN,4 AND JERRY F. FRANKLIN5 1U.S. Geological