Simulating the effects of climate change on tropical montane cloud forests

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 608-610

  Still, Christopher J ^a,c   Foster, Prudence N ^b   Schneider, Stephen H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; MONTANE FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLOUD; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; FOREST; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

EID: 0033561322     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19293     Document Type: Article

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