Site- and Species-Specific Influences on Sub-Alpine Conifer Growth in Mt. Rainier National Park, USA
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site and Species
2.2. Tree Growth Data
2.3. Climate Data
2.4. Climate Variable Selection, Model Selection and Statistical Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
South | Northwest | East | |
---|---|---|---|
ABAM | 20 | 19 | 21 |
ABLA | 10 | 19 | 20 |
TSME | 20 | 19 | 19 |
CANO | 19 | 20 | 19 |
Species/Site | Comparison | F-Statistic | df | t-Value | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABAM/SOUTH | siteEAST:PAS | 20.14 on 15 | 323 | 2.544 | 0.01143 |
TSME/SOUTH | siteNORTHWEST:DD5_sp | 16.29 on 15 | 324 | −2.059 | 0.04031 |
ABAM/SOUTH | speciesABLA:PAS | 14.67 on 20 | 428 | 2.542 | 0.01137 |
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Species/Site | GDD_sm | GDD_sp | PAS | Prev_GDD_sm | RH_sp |
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ABAM/S | 1.00 | 0.74 | 1.00 | 0.83 | 0.65 |
ABAM/NW | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.51 |
ABAM/E | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.56 |
ABLA/S | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
ABLA/NW | 0.97 | 0.65 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.33 |
ABLA/E | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.72 |
TSME/S | 1.00 | 0.23 | 1.00 | 0.58 | 0.24 |
TSME/NW | 1.00 | 0.92 | 1.00 | 0.82 | 0.94 |
TSME/E | 1.00 | 0.47 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.73 |
CANO/S | 0.89 | 0.21 | 1.00 | 0.31 | 0.29 |
CANO/NW | 1.00 | 0.36 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.83 |
CANO/E | 0.86 | 0.33 | 1.00 | 0.62 | 0.43 |
Average | 0.98 | 0.66 | 1.00 | 0.81 | 0.60 |
Model | df | ΔAIC | R2 |
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rwi~1 | 2 | 572.80 | 0 |
rwi~climate | 7 | 0 | 0.349 |
rwi~climate*site | 17 | −2.42 | 0.360 |
◊ rwi~climate*species | 22 | −8.20 | 0.367 |
rwi~climate*species*site | 62 | 31.90 | 0.386 |
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Legendre-Fixx, M.; Anderegg, L.D.L.; Ettinger, A.K.; HilleRisLambers, J. Site- and Species-Specific Influences on Sub-Alpine Conifer Growth in Mt. Rainier National Park, USA. Forests 2018, 9, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9010001
Legendre-Fixx M, Anderegg LDL, Ettinger AK, HilleRisLambers J. Site- and Species-Specific Influences on Sub-Alpine Conifer Growth in Mt. Rainier National Park, USA. Forests. 2018; 9(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleLegendre-Fixx, Myesa, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Ailene K. Ettinger, and Janneke HilleRisLambers. 2018. "Site- and Species-Specific Influences on Sub-Alpine Conifer Growth in Mt. Rainier National Park, USA" Forests 9, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9010001