Potential effects of climate change on plant species in the Faroe Islands

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 427-437

  Fosaa, Anna Maria ^a,b   Sykes, Martin T ^c   Lawesson, Jonas E ^d   Gaard, Magnus ^a  

^a Faroese Museum of Natural History   (Faroe Islands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Institute of Biological Sciences   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alpine species; Climate change modelling; Cold summer; Faroe Islands; North Atlantic Current; Oceanicity; Soil temperature; Vegetation change; Warm winter

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TOLERANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

BISTORTA; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; EMPETRUM; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; GALIUM; NARDUS STRICTA; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM; RACOMITRIUM; RACOMITRIUM FASCICULARE; SALIX; SALIX HERBACEA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; GALIUM SAXATILE;

EID: 4344563276     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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