Modelling chestnut biogeography for American chestnut restoration

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 754-768

  Fei, Songlin ^a   Liang, Liang ^b   Paillet, Frederick L ^c   Steiner, Kim C ^d   Fang, Jingyun ^e   Shen, Zehao ^e   Wang, Zhiheng ^f   Hebard, Frederick V ^g  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g American Chestnut Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

American chestnut; Climatic envelope matching; Conservation biogeography; Fagaceae; Restoration; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATIC REGION; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMPLASM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

CASTANEA; CASTANEA DENTATA; CASTANEA MOLLISSIMA; FAGACEAE;

EID: 84863606266     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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