Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in north-west Alaska

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 541-555

  Rupp, T Scott ^a,b   Chapin III, F Stuart ^b   Starfield, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climatic change; Landscape dynamics; Spatially explicit; Transient dynamics; Treeline

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODEL; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034095686     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00337.x     Document Type: Article

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