Comment on "changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species' optimum elevations"

Science

Volumn 334, Issue 6053, 2011, Pages

  Stephenson, Nathan L ^a   Das, Adrian J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLANT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER DEFICIT; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM;

WATER;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; WATER;

EID: 80054115580     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1205740     Document Type: Note

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