Vegetation controls vary across space and spatial scale in a historic grassland-forest biome boundary

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 402-414

  Danz, Nicholas P ^a   Reich, Peter B ^b   Frelich, Lee E ^b   Niemi, Gerald J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOME; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRAIRIE; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957865194     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06561.x     Document Type: Article

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