Relationship between climate change and vegetation distribution in the Mediterranean mountains: Manzanares Head valley, Sierra De Guadarrama (Central Spain)

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 645-666

  García Romero, Arturo ^a   Muñoz, Julio ^b   Andrés, Nuria ^b   Palacios, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL SPAIN; CHANGE PROCESS; HERBACEOUS PLANTS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVERS; STUDY AREAS; SUMMER ARIDITY; TEMPERATURE RISE; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; THERMAL VARIABLES; TRANSITION MATRICES; VEGETATION CLASS; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WINTER MONTHS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SNOW; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MADRID [SPAIN]; MANZANARES VALLEY; SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA; SISTEMA CENTRAL; SPAIN;

EID: 77953025337     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9727-7     Document Type: Article

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