A transient, nutrient-based model of arctic plant community response to climatic warming

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 824-841

  Epstein, Howard E ^a   Walker, Marilyn D ^a   Chapin III, F Stuart ^b   Starfield, Anthony M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Dynamic vegetation modeling; Moist acidic tundra; Nitrogen; Plant functional types; Transient dynamics; Tussock tundra

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0034476721     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0824:ATNBMO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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