Quantifying the abundance of co-occurring conifers along inland northwest (USA) climate gradients

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2127-2139

  Rehfeldt, Gerald E ^a   Ferguson, Dennis E ^a   Crookston, Nicholas L ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitudinal distributions; Climatic distributions; Conifers; Inland Northwest; Random forests; Realized climate niche; Species abundance; USA; Weibull regressions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TREES;

EID: 54549108774     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2013.1     Document Type: Article

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