Long-term drivers of forest composition in a boreonemoral region: The relative importance of climate and human impact

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1524-1534

  Reitalu, Triin ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^b   Sugita, Shinya ^c   Kangur, Mihkel ^c   Koff, Tiiu ^c   Avel, Eve ^c   Kihno, Kersti ^d,e   Vassiljev, Jüri ^a   Renssen, Hans ^f   Hammarlund, Dan ^g   Heikkilä, Maija ^b,h,i   Saarse, Leili ^a   Poska, Anneli ^a   Veski, Siim ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

ⁱ FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impact; Community history; Estonia; Forest composition; Forest ecology; Meta analysis; Millennial time scale; Palaeoecology; Pollen data; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; COOLING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HOLOCENE; MIXED FOREST; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84880435674     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12092     Document Type: Article

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