Why trees migrate so fast: Confronting theory with dispersal biology and the paleorecord

American Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 204-224

  Clark, James S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diffusion; Dispersal; Holocene; Migration; Pollen data

Indexed keywords

PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSION; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE;

EID: 0031823937     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286162     Document Type: Article

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