Importance of colonization and competition in forest landscape response to global climatic change

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 53-83

  Xu, Chonggang ^a   Gertner, George Z ^b   Scheller, Robert M ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS; COMPOSITION CHANGES; DISTURBANCE REGIME; DOMINANT PROCESS; FIRE DISTURBANCE; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST LANDSCAPE; FOREST TYPE; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; MINNESOTA; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELATIVE STRENGTH; ROTATION PERIOD; SUITABLE HABITAT; TREE SPECIES; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION; WINDTHROWS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; ROTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SUCCESSION;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; ROTATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83055176727     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0098-5     Document Type: Article

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