Tree Migration-Rates: Narrowing the Gap between Inferred Post-Glacial Rates and Projected Rates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Feurdean, Angelica ^a,b   Bhagwat, Shonil A ^c,d   Willis, Katherine J ^d,e   Birks, H John B ^c,e,f   Lischke, Heike ^g   Hickler, Thomas ^a,h  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^h SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; MACROFOSSIL; MICROCLIMATE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POST GLACIAL MIGRATION RATE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES REFUGE; TREE;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FORESTRY; ICE; ICE COVER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 84883183911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071797     Document Type: Article

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