Modeling impacts of climate change on Joshua trees at their southern boundary: How scale impacts predictions

Biological Conservation

Volumn 152, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-36

  Barrows, Cameron W ^a   Murphy Mariscal, Michelle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Joshua Tree National Park; Mahalanobis D 2; Niche model; Scale; Yucca brevifolia

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INVASIVE SPECIES; JUVENILE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; NATURAL RESOURCE; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; REFUGIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

YUCCA BREVIFOLIA;

EID: 84862669228     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.028     Document Type: Article

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