Assisted migration: Uncertainty, risk and opportunity

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 412-419

  Park, Andrew ^a   Talbot, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Climate change scenarios; Ecophysiology; Epigenetics; Managed relocation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED MIGRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84865739310     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc2012-077     Document Type: Article

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