Predicting abundance of 80 tree species following climate change in the eastern United States

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-485

  Iverson, Louis R ^a   Prasad, Anantha M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Envelope analysis; Forest inventory; Geographic information Systems (GIS); Global change; Landscape ecology; Predictive vegetation mapping; Regression tree analysis (RTA); Species environment relationships; Tree species distribution; Tree species migration; Tree species ranges

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION MODELING; PREDICTION; TREE;

(EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 3643116698     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0465:PAOTSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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