Plant species distributions under present conditions and forecasted for warmer climates in an arid mountain range

Earth Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1-33

  Van De Ven, Christopher M ^a   Weiss, S B ^b   Ernst, W G ^c  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Creekside Center for Earth Observation   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Plant distribution models; White mountains

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

CALIFORNIA; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; PLANT DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; WHITE MOUNTAINS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77955931678     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI205.1     Document Type: Article

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