The effects of climate chance on landscape diversity: An example in Ontario forests

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 213-233

  Thompson, Ian D ^a   Flannigan, Michael D ^a   Wotton, B Michael ^a   Suffling, Roger ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE DOUBLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST ECOSYSTEMITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PINE; PLANT SEED;

CANDA, ONTARIO;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; CANDA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PICEA MARIANA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BOREAL FOREST; FIRE WEATHER INDEX; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; PALEOECOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 0031597131     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005894525278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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