Simulating the effects of climate change on the distribution of an invasive plant, using a high resolution, local scale, mechanistic approach: Challenges and insights

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1262-1274

  Fennell, Mark ^a   Murphy, James E ^a   Gallagher, Tommy ^a   Osborne, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Gunnera tinctoria; Individual based mechanistic model; Model parameterisation; Plant invasions; Propagule dispersal

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS;

GUNNERA TINCTORIA;

EID: 84874680941     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12102     Document Type: Article

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