Neotropical C 3/C 4 grass distributions - present, past and future

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2324-2334

  Bremond, Laurent ^a,b   Boom, Arnoud ^b   Favier, Charly ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitudinal gradient; Andes; C 4 grass distribution; Grass dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANDES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84861855137     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02690.x     Document Type: Article

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