Recent Climate Change Impacts on the Boreal Forest of Alaska

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 67-80

  Calef, Monika P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDICTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77957139980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00310.x     Document Type: Review

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