New Zealand's potential forest pattern as predicted from current species-environment relationships

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 447-464

  Leathwick, J R ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Broadleaved; Climate; Competition; Conifer; Conservation; Forest; Landform; Nothofagus; Prediction; Regression

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION;

NEW ZEALAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 0035705003     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2001.9512748     Document Type: Article

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