Simulating climate change impacts on forests and associated vascular epiphytes in a subtropical island of East Asia

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 334-347

  Hsu, Rebecca C C ^a   Tamis, Wil L M ^b   Raes, Niels ^b   de Snoo, Geert R ^b   Wolf, Jan H D ^c   Oostermeijer, Gerard ^c   Lin, Shu Hua ^d  

^a TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; East Asia; Maximum entropy method; Species distribution model (SDM); Subtropical island; Tree persistence

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIPHYTE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PERSISTENCE; PROTECTED AREA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VULNERABILITY;

TAIWAN;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSUS; PICEA;

EID: 84858075155     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00819.x     Document Type: Article

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