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Main Title Growth-Trend Declines of Spruce and Fir in Mid-Appalachian Subalpine Forests.
Author Adams, H. S. ; Stephenson, S. L. ; Blasing, T. J. ; Duvick, D. N. ;
CORP Author Oak Ridge National Lab., TN. ;Dabney S. Lancaster Community Coll., Clifton Forge, VA. ;Fairmont State Coll., WV.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR.
Year Published 1985
Report Number EPA/600/J-85/360;
Stock Number PB86-179207
Additional Subjects Growth ; Fir trees ; Forest trees ; Age determination ; Trees(Plants) ; Plant ecology ; Elevation ; Trends ; Droughts ; Mortality ; Air pollution ; Stress(Physiology) ; Climate ; Appalachian Mountains ; Insects ; Reprints ; Picea rubens ; Red spruce trees ; Abies balsamea ; Abies fraseri
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Abstract
Dendroecological analysis of 258 increment growth cores collected from red spruce, balsam fir, and Fraser fir in central West Virginia and western Virginia indicates marked declines in growth-trend during the past 20 years similar to that reported for spruce and fir in high-elevation forests of the northern Appalachians. Consequently, growth-trend declines of conifers in subalpine forest ecosystems of eastern North America are apparently more widespread than previously realized and might therefore be related to a large-scale change in air quality. The initiation of growth-trend decline was often synchronous with the onset of a major drought, but the growth rates have failed to recover since the late 1960s when the drought ended. (Copyright (c) 1985 Pergamon Press Ltd).