Predicting changes in the composition of New Zealand's indigenous forests in response to global warming: A modelling approach

Environmental Software

Volumn 11, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 81-90

  Leathwick, J R ^a   Whitehead, D ^b   McLeod, M ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition; Forest; Generalised additive models; Moisture availability; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; LITHOGRAPHY; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; GLOBAL WARMING; PREDICTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0030368244     PISSN: 02669838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-9838(96)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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