Favorable climate change response explains non-native species' success in Thoreau's Woods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Willis, Charles G ^a,b   Ruhfel, Brad R ^a   Primack, Richard B ^c   Miller Rushing, Abraham J ^d,e   Losos, Jonathan B ^a   Davis, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d National Phenology Network   (United States)

^e Wildlife Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; FLOWERING; PHENOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WOOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MASSACHUSETTS; PLANTS;

EID: 77749282945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008878     Document Type: Article

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