Genetic responses to climate in Pinus contorta: Niche breadth, climate change, and reforestation

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 375-407

  Rehfeldt, Gerald E ^a   Ying, Cheng C ^b   Spittlehouse, David L ^b   Hamilton Jr , David A ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate response functions of populations; Climatic gradients; Fundamental niche vs. realized niche; Genetic variation; Global climate change; Microevolution; Niche breadth; Pinus contorta; Population differentiation; Reforestation in a changing environment; Responses to a changing environment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; NICHE BREADTH; POPULATION GENETICS; REFORESTATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 0032764124     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657162     Document Type: Article

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