Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1266-1286

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Sandel, Brody ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal limitation; Global change; Plant migration; Plant population dynamics; Predictive modeling; Range shift; Succession; Time lags; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MIGRATION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL LIMITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; PLANT; PLANT MIGRATION; PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RANGE SHIFT; REVIEW; SUCCESSION; TIME LAGS; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL LIMITATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; PLANT MIGRATION; PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RANGE SHIFT; SUCCESSION; TIME LAGS; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84880104231     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200469     Document Type: Review

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