Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-369

  Pearman, Peter B ^a   Randin, Christophe F ^a   Broennimann, Olivier ^a   Vittoz, Pascal ^a   Knaap, Willem O Van Der ^b   Engler, Robin ^a   Lay, Gwenaelle Le ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaft   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global circulation model; Hindcasting; Holocene; Niche conservatism; PMIP; Pollen; Range filling; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HINDCASTING; HOLOCENE; NICHE; PALYNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLEN; TREE;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLEN; TREES;

EID: 40349090007     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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