Stand development and tree growth response to sugar pine mortality in sierran mixed-conifer forests

Agriculture & Biology

• Abies 20%
• blister rust 27%
• canopy 4%
• coniferous forests 64%
• conifers 6%
• Cronartium ribicola 9%
• mixed forests 72%
• mountains 5%
• overstory 15%
• pathogens 3%
• Pinus lambertiana 100%
• shade 5%
• shade tolerance 8%
• Sierra Nevada (California) 8%
• species recruitment 5%
• stand development 85%
• tree growth 64%
• tree release 10%
• understory 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• basal area 13%
• canopy 4%
• coniferous tree 61%
• development pattern 7%
• effect 1%
• growth response 75%
• loss 3%
• mortality 46%
• mountain 3%
• overstory 15%
• pathogen 5%
• pine 51%
• rust disease 23%
• shade tolerance 9%
• stratification 5%
• sugar 60%
• understory 6%