Modeling the climatic drivers of spatial patterns in vegetation composition since the Last Glacial Maximum

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 460-473

  Blois, Jessica L ^a   Williams, John W ^a   Fitzpatrick, Matthew C ^b   Ferrier, Simon ^c   Veloz, Samuel D ^d   He, Feng ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Manion, Glenn ^e   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^e OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84875649682     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07852.x     Document Type: Article

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