Climate change and fire effects on a prairie-woodland ecotone: Projecting species range shifts with a dynamic global vegetation model

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5076-5097

  King, David A ^a   Bachelet, Dominique M ^a,b   Symstad, Amy J ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

DGVM; Drought; Fire; MC1; Niche based species distribution models; Pinus ponderosa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889666482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.877     Document Type: Article

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