Modelling the impact of climate and land use change on the geographical distribution of leaf anatomy in a temperate flora

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 507-518

  Küster, Eva C ^a,c   Bierman, Stijn M ^b   Klotz, Stefan ^a   Kühn, Ingolf ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLORA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 79957823427     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.05892.x     Document Type: Article

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