Expert Opinion on Environmental BiologyISSN: 2325-9655

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Sergio M Vicente- Serrano Author

cyi@qc.cuny.edu

Subjects of specialization
Environmental, Biodiversity

Affiliation
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecolog

Biography

Dr. Sergio M Vicente- Serrano is currently working in Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain. Research interest - Environment, Biodiversity. He has a good track record in managing and developing local teams and competences as well as in growing a profitable research.

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Bifurcated Response of a Regional Forest to Drought

Author(s):

Chuixiang Yi, Guangwei Mu, George Hendrey, Sergio M Vicente- Serrano, Wei Fang, Tao Zhou, Shan Gao and Peipei Xu

Several lines of evidence suggest that forest growth in many regions is declining as a consequence of changing climate. To predict the fate of forests in the future, a quantitative understanding of how the key climate variables (insolation, precipitation and temperature) interact with forests to cause the decline is a pressing need. Here we use a regionally-averaged tree-ring width index (RWIr) to quantify forest growth in the Southwest United States (SWUS). We show that over a period of 90 years, SWUS RWIr bifurcated into forest stands with enhanced (healthy) and reduced (declining) branches when regressed on shortwave-radiation and temperature, respectively. The reduced branch was controlled overwhelmingly by drought as measured with a regionally-averaged precipitationevapotranspirati... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9655.1000153

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