Eucalypts face increasing climate stress

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5011-5022

  Butt, Nathalie ^a   Pollock, Laura J ^b   Mcalpine, Clive A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatic stress; Eucalypts; Forest ecosystems; Rainfall seasonality; Range shifts.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889664168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.873     Document Type: Article

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