Potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species distribution in British Columbia

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2773-2786

  Hamann, Andreas ^a,b   Wang, Tongli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic analysis; British Columbia; Climate change; Climate envelope; Predictive vegetation mapping; Spatial predictions; Species distributions and ranges

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; WEATHER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES; WEATHER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 33746040671     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2773:PEOCCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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