Climate-related variation in mortality and recruitment determine regional forest-type distributions

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1192-1203

  Vanderwel, Mark C ^a,b   Lyutsarev, Vassily S ^a   Purves, Drew W ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CAIN; Competition; Dynamic vegetation models; Eastern USA; Forest dynamics; Gap model; Plant functional types; Process based modelling; Range limits; Tree demography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEMOGRAPHY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST INVENTORY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE SIZE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885835661     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12081     Document Type: Article

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