Potential impacts of precipitation change on large-scale patterns of tree diversity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Konar, M ^a   Muneepeerakul, R ^a   Azaele, S ^a   Bertuzzo, E ^b   Rinaldo, A ^b,c   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; CONSERVATION POLICY; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MISSISSIPPI; MISSOURIS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER SYSTEMS; SCALE PATTERN; SPATIAL EXTENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREE DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78249267930     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009384     Document Type: Article

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