Projecting the distribution of forests in New England in response to climate change

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 144-158

  Tang, Guoping ^a   Beckage, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

BIOME4; Climate change; Global circulation model; Species shifts; Tree distribution; Vegetation model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MIXED FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 74549213839     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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