Assessing potential impacts of climatic change on subalpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-241

  Xiaodan, Wang ^a   Genwei, Cheng ^a   Xianghao, Zhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST PATCH MODEL; FOREST STRUCTURE; GAP MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HIGH ELEVATION; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; OBSERVED DATA; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; TEST MODELS; WARMING CLIMATE;

CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIAMETER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEVATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEIGHT; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECISION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION; TUNDRA; WARMING;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOUNTAINS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TIBET; TREE DIMENSIONS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES; BETULA UTILIS;

EID: 80052261597     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-0008-2     Document Type: Article

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