A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests
Bernhard Schuldt,Allan Buras,Matthias Arend,Yann Vitasse,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Alexander Damm,Mana Gharun,Thorsten E. E. Grams,Markus Hauck,Peter Hajek,Henrik Hartmann,Erika Hiltbrunner,Günter Hoch,Meisha Holloway-Phillips,Christian Körner,Elena Larysch,Torben Lübbe,Daniel B. Nelson,Anja Rammig,Andreas Rigling,Laura Rose,Nadine K. Ruehr,Katja Schumann,Frank Weiser,Christiane Werner,Thomas Wohlgemuth,Christian Zang,Ansgar Kahmen +27 more
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In 2018, Central Europe experienced one of the most severe and long-lasting summer drought and heat wave ever recorded, which had a greater impact on forest ecosystems of Austria, Germany and Switzerland than the 2003 drought as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2020-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 399 citations till now.read more
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