Upward expansion of fire-adapted grasses along a warming tropical elevation gradient

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 551-559

  Angelo, Courtney L ^a   Daehler, Curtis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; WARMING;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84876801716     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07754.x     Document Type: Article

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