Assessing the potential for urban trees to facilitate forest tree migration in the eastern United States

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1447-1454

  Woodall, C W ^a   Nowak, D J ^a   Liknes, G C ^a   Westfall, J A ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Climate change; Eastern United States; Facilitated migration; Forest ecosystems; Urban

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS DENSITY; DUAL ROLE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST LAND; FORESTLANDS; MIGRATION ABILITY; NATIVE TREES; NON-NATIVE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SOURCE; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; TREE MIGRATION; TREE SPECIES; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN FORESTS; URBAN TREES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FACILITATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; POLLINATOR; REFUGE; SEED DISPERSAL; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649271228     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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