Assessing potential climate change effects on vegetation using a linked model approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-143

  Halofsky, Jessica E ^a   Hemstrom, Miles A ^b   Conklin, David R ^c   Halofsky, Joshua S ^d   Kerns, Becky K ^e   Bachelet, Dominique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^d Washington Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dynamic global vegetation models; State and transition models; Vegetation dynamics; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STATE-AND-TRANSITION MODELS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MODEL; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATE MODELS; FIRE RESISTANCE; FIRES; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881536330     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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