A word of caution when planning forest management using projections of tree species range shifts

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 312-316

  Lo, Yueh Hsin ^a,b   Blanco, Juan A ^a   Kimmins, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate envelope models; Dendroclimatology; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ENVELOPE MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; TREE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ECOZONE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANNING PRACTICE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CLIMATES; FORECASTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; PLANNING; SOFTWOODS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77953431081     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc86312-3     Document Type: Article

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