This project was funded by the 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (No. Y421081001). LC thanks the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for supporting his studies in Japan. Other funding agencies include National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31570584, 31550110208 & 41661144007), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015M582433), Academy of Finland (Projects No. 1284701, 1282842 & 285630) and ICOS-Finland (Project No. 281255), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Mixedwood Management Association and Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta. We thank Caroline Whitehouse for providing information on historical defoliator insect outbreaks in Alberta and Drs. Dan Mandanny and Pie Papadopol from the Canadian Forest Service for providing climate data.
Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Sapporo, Japan; Institut de Recherche Sur Les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 445, boulevard de l'Université, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 48, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Forest Management Branch, Sustainable Resource Development, 9820, 106 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 116 Street and 85 Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Chen L.,Huang J.-G.,Alam S.A.,et al. Drought causes reduced growth of trembling aspen in western Canada[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(7)