No-analog climates and shifting realized niches during the late quaternary: Implications for 21st-century predictions by species distribution models

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1698-1713

  Veloz, Samuel D ^a,c   Williams, John W ^a   Blois, Jessica L ^a   He, Feng ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^b   Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hindcasting; Niche shift; Niche stability; No analog climate; North america; Paleo climate; Pollen; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; MODELING; NICHE OVERLAP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA;

FRAXINUS; PICEA; PINUS STROBUS; QUERCUS; ULMUS;

EID: 84862829674     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02635.x     Document Type: Article

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