Simulating potential effects of climatic warming on altitudinal patterns of key species in Mediterranean-alpine ecosystems

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-483

  Benito, Blas ^a   Lorite, Juan ^a   Peñas, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RATE; CLIMATE WARMING; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; CLIMATIC WARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEAN TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; POTENTIAL HABITAT; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RARE SPECIES; SIERRA NEVADA; SPATIAL CHANGES; SPATIAL COMPETITION; SPATIAL DATABASE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SUITABLE HABITAT; VEGETATION TYPE; VERTICAL SHIFT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; DATABASE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT LOSS; RARE SPECIES; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CLIMATES; DATA BASES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOUNTAINS; PLANTS; SIMULATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052935098     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-0015-3     Document Type: Article

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