Ecological niche modeling on the effect of climatic change and conservation of Ternstroemia lineata DC. (Ternstroemiaceae) in Mesoamerica

Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 637-650

  Luna Vega, Isolda ^a   Alcántara Ayala, Othón ^a   Contreras Medina, Raúl ^b   Ríos Muñoz, César A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Escuela de Ciencias   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conservation assessment; Ecological niche model; Global climate change; Guatemala; Mexico; Ternstroemia lineata; Ternstroemiaceae

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD FOREST; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NICHE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBSPECIES;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MESOAMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

TERNSTROEMIA LINEATA; TERNSTROEMIACEAE;

EID: 84863209295     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B2012-019     Document Type: Article

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