Tree-species range shifts in a changing climate: Detecting, modeling, assisting

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 879-889

  Iverson, Louis R ^a   McKenzie, Donald ^b  

^a Northern Research Station   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Demography; Process based; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; HABITAT SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MIGRATION; RANGE EXPANSION; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876972950     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9885-x     Document Type: Article

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