Climate change at the ecosystem scale: A 50-year record in New Hampshire

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 457-477

  Hamburg, Steven P ^a,b   Vadeboncoeur, Matthew A ^a,c   Richardson, Andrew D ^c,d   Bailey, Amey S ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM LEVELS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG TERM RECORDS; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872658823     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0517-2     Document Type: Article

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