Historic declines in growth portend trembling aspen death during a contemporary leaf miner outbreak in Alaska

Agriculture & Biology

• leafminers 69%
• Populus tremuloides 69%
• death 42%
• climate 24%
• normalized difference vegetation index 23%
• tree growth 19%
• insect outbreaks 18%
• drought 14%
• Phyllocnistis populiella 12%
• biomass 11%
• climate change 10%
• tree mortality 7%
• insects 7%
• dieback 7%
• species recruitment 5%
• leaves 5%
• temperature 4%
• canopy 4%
• ecosystems 4%
• monitoring 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• leafminer 100%
• mortality 25%
• insect 13%
• NDVI 10%
• climate 9%
• drought 8%
• biomass 6%
• moisture 5%
• dieback 4%
• mortality risk 4%
• basal area 4%
• climate effect 3%
• monitoring network 3%
• biome 3%
• vulnerability 2%
• canopy 2%
• North America 2%
• temperature 2%
• climate change 2%