Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 755-768

  Gonzalez, Patrick ^a   Neilson, Ronald P ^b   Lenihan, James M ^b   Drapek, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biome change; Climate change; Dynamic global vegetation model; Natural resource management; Vegetation shifts; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VULNERABILITY;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 77958507110     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00558.x     Document Type: Article

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