Interactions between growth, demography and biotic interactions in determining species range limits in a warming world: The case of Pinus sylvestris

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-22

  Matías, Luis ^a   Jump, Alistair S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotic interactions; Climate change; Distribution limit; Mortality; Scots pine; Tree line

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; DISTRIBUTION LIMIT; MORTALITY; SCOTS PINE; TREE LINE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHENOLS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ECOLOGY;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH; HERBIVORY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LIMITING FACTOR; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MASS MORTALITY; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; PEST OUTBREAK; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RANGE EXPANSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TREELINE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; GROWTH; MORTALITY; PHENOLS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; TREES;

HEXAPODA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84864397268     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.06.053     Document Type: Review

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