Strategies for reforestation under uncertain future climates: Guidelines for Alberta, Canada

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Gray, Laura K ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACK SPRUCE; CANADA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENOTYPE; HABITAT USE; PLANT SEED; PRECIPITATION; REFORESTATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TAIGA; TREE; WHITE SPRUCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRUCE; UNCERTAINTY;

ALBERTA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PICEA; PINUS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 80051520138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022977     Document Type: Article

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