Vegetation response to early holocene warming as an analog for current and future changes: Special section

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-37

  Cole, Kenneth L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonizing species; Early Holocene; Global warming; Grand Canyon; Plant succession; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOSSIL RECORD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSILS; PLANTS;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549117873     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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