Realized climatic niche of North American plant taxa lagged behind climate during the end of the Pleistocene

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1255-1265

  Ordonez, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate tracking; Climatic niche; Fossil pollen; Holocene; Lagged responses; Paleoclimate climate velocity; Paleoecology; Pleistocene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; NICHE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE TRACKING; CLIMATIC NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; FOSSIL POLLEN; HOLOCENE; LAGGED RESPONSES; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOCLIMATE/CLIMATE VELOCITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUATERNARY; SEASON; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE TRACKING; CLIMATIC NICHE; FOSSIL POLLEN; HOLOCENE; LAGGED RESPONSES; PALEOCLIMATE/CLIMATE VELOCITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84880122707     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300043     Document Type: Article

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