Moisture, thermal inertia, and the spatial distributions of near-surface soil and air temperatures: Understanding factors that promote microrefugia

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 176, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-89

  Ashcroft, Michael B ^a,b   Gollan, John R ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diurnal range; Refugia; Soil moisture; Temperature variability; Topoclimate

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877338037     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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