A risk-based model of climate change threat: Hazard, exposure, and vulnerability in the ecology of lichen epiphytes

Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Ellis, Christopher J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic model; Climate change; Cross scale interactions; Epiphytes; Functional traits; Lichens; Microhabitat

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EPIPHYTE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENE FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; LICHEN; MICROHABITAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84873595245     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjb-2012-0171     Document Type: Review

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