Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11591-11592

  Breshears, David D ^a,b   Huxman, Travis E ^a,b   Adams, Henry D ^b   Zou, Chris B ^a   Davison, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NOTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECOLOGY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE; HEATING; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 50149107359     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806579105     Document Type: Note

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