A spatially interactive simulation of climate change, harvesting, wind, and tree species migration and projected changes to forest composition and biomass in northern Wisconsin, USA

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 307-321

  Scheller, Robert M ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass accumulation; Climate change; Harvesting; Seed dispersal; Tree species migration; Windthrow; Wisconsin (USA)

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; MIGRATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WISCONSIN; WORLD;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; CARYA; PARAGNETINA; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS RESINOSA; QUERCUS;

EID: 13944274169     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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