Predictive modelling of tree species distributions on the Iberian Peninsula during the Last Glacial Maximum and Mid-Holocene

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-134

  Benito Garzón, Marta ^a   Sánchez De Dios, Rut ^a   Sáinz Ollero, Helios ^a  

^a Biology Dept (Botany)   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

QUERCUS;

EID: 33847187072     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2007.04813.x     Document Type: Article

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