Effects of climate warming on the distributions of invasive Eurasian annual grasses: A South African perspective

Climatic Change

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 87-103

  Parker Allie, F ^a   Musil, C F ^a   Thuiller, W ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; CLIMATE WARMING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE REGIMES; FUTURE CLIMATES; GRASS SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS; MEAN TEMPERATURES; MODEL ACCURACIES; MODELLING FRAMEWORKS; NATURAL VEGETATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RULE-BASED MODELS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASS; HABITAT LOSS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BRIZA MINOR; POACEAE;

EID: 67349219662     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9549-7     Document Type: Article

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