Influence of landscape structure and climate variability on a late holocene plant migration

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 567-583

  Lyford, Mark E ^a   Jackson, Stephen T ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b   Gray, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Juniperus osteosperma; Landscape structure; Long distance dispersal; Utah juniper; Woodrat middens

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPERSAL; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MIGRATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA;

EID: 0348161184     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4011     Document Type: Article

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