Climate influences on forest dynamics in the Patagonian Andes, Argentina

SRUR, ANA; AMOROSO, MARIANO MARTIN; CASTELLER, ALEJANDRO; MORALES, MARIANO; MUNDO, IGNACIO; RODRIGUEZ-CATON, MILAGROS; SUAREZ, MARIA LAURA; VILLLABA, RICARDO

Mountain Forests in a Changing World Realizing values, addressing challenges

Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y Alimentación (FAO)

Lugar: Roma; Año: 2011; p. 65 - 65

Patagonia’s forests are probably experiencing the warmest period of the last millennium; precipitation has also significantly decreased in recent decades. These changes have introduced substantial variations in the rate of forest growth and in the frequency, magnitude, and spatial scale of natural disturbances at regional scales. Several long-lived tree species living in the region are suitable for reconstructing past disturbances at an annual resolution, making it possible to understand these relationships using long-term series of both climate and disturbance.