Potential colonization of newly available tree-species habitat under climate change: An analysis for five eastern US species

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 787-799

  Iverson, Louis R ^a   Schwartz, M W ^b   Prasad, Anantha M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Eastern United States; Global warming; Landscape ecology; Plant migration; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; TREE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; DIOSPYROS VIRGINIANA; FAGUS; LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA; OXYDENDRUM; OXYDENDRUM ARBOREUM; PINUS TAEDA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS FALCATA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 13944280777     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-3990-5     Document Type: Article

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