Modeling plant ranges over 75 years of climate change in California, USA: Temporal transferability and species traits

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-257

  Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^a   Thorne, James H ^b   Greenberg, Jonathan A ^b   Safford, Hugh D ^c   Mynsberge, Alison R ^a   Crimmins, Shawn M ^a   Swanson, Alan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Climate change; Endemism; Fire adaptation; Forecasting; Hindcasting; Historical data; Species distribution models (SDM); Species traits; Transferability; Vegetation Type Map (VTM)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; HINDCASTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79955492019     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1325.1     Document Type: Article

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