Climate and land use change impacts on plant distributions in Germany

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 564-567

  Pompe, Sven ^a   Hanspach, Jan ^a   Badeck, Franz ^b   Klotz, Stefan ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c   Kühn, Ingolf ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Germany; Plant ranges; Predictive modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLORA; GERMANY; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 51549100885     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0231     Document Type: Article

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