Genetic consequences of forest population dynamics influenced by historic climatic variability in the western USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 197, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 159-170

  Westfall, Robert D ^a   Millar, Constance I ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic response; Genetic statistics; Quantitative genetic variation; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECONSTRUCTION;

FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3843092848     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.05.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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