Environmental change controls postglacial forest dynamics through interspecific differences in life-history traits

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2149-2160

  Lacourse, Terri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Canada; Community assembly; Coniferous forests; Fourth corner analysis; Life history; Paleoecology; Plant traits; Pollen analysis; RLQ analysis; Stress tolerance; Trait environment linkages

Indexed keywords

WATER;

COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POSTGLACIAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALNUS; ALNUS SINUATA; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 68149119337     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1136.1     Document Type: Article

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