A process-based approach to estimate lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.) distribution in the Pacific Northwest under climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 313-328

  Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Waring, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT RANGE; DECISION-TREE MODEL; FIELD SURVEYS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LODGEPOLE PINE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PINUS CONTORTA; PROCESS-BASED APPROACH; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWMELT; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; WOOD SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SUN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOWMELT; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; WOOD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 79951810723     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9861-2     Document Type: Article

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