Projecting future distributions of ecosystem climate niches: Uncertainties and management applications

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 279, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-140

  Wang, Tongli ^a   Campbell, Elizabeth M ^b   O'Neill, Gregory A ^c   Aitken, Sally N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate envelope; Consensus map; Ecosystem; Forest management; Random Forest

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE ENVELOPE; CONSENSUS MAP; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DOUGLAS FIR; DRY FORESTS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; MANAGEMENT PLANNING; MODEL RELATIONSHIPS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; RANDOM FORESTS; SEED ORCHARD; STATISTICAL MODELING; TIMBER SPECIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REFORESTATION; SEED;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES; REFORESTATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

CONIUM; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84862661098     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.034     Document Type: Article

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