Predicting species responses to climate change: Demography and climate microrefugia in California valley oak (Quercus lobata)

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2301-2312

  Mclaughlin, Blair C ^a   Zavaleta, Erika S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimate modeling; Climate change; Microrefugia; Oak recruitment; Valley oak (Quercus lobata)

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; JUVENILE; SURFACE WATER; THRESHOLD;

QUERCUS LOBATA;

EID: 84861859562     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02630.x     Document Type: Article

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