Landscape planning for the future: Using fossil records to independently validate bioclimatic envelope models for economically valuable tree species in Europe

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 318-333

  Macias Fauria, Marc ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope models; Climate change; Conservation planning; Europe; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Species distribution models; Woody species

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOSSIL RECORD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873957834     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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