Past and ongoing shifts in Joshua tree distribution support future modeled range contraction

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-149

  Cole, Kenneth L ^a   Ironside, Kirsten ^a   Eischeid, Jon ^b   Garfin, Gregg ^c   Duffy, Phillip B ^d,f   Toney, Chris ^e  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^f Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate effects modeling; Extinct seed vectors; Joshua tree; Mohave Desert; Plant migration; Yucca brevifolia

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOSTATISTICS; HABITAT TYPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

CLIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES;

NOTHROTHERIOPS SHASTENSIS; YUCCA BREVIFOLIA;

EID: 79955527539     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1800.1     Document Type: Article

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