Impacts of climate change on diversity in forested ecosystems: Some examples

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 655-661

  Gray, Paul A ^a  

^a ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecodiversity; Ecosystem diversity; Forest; Genetic diversity; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ECODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM DIVERSITY; GENETIC DIVERSITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 27644561856     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: 00157546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc81655-5     Document Type: Review

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