How do disturbances and environmental heterogeneity affect the pace of forest distribution shifts under climate change?

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-20

  Vanderwel, Mark C ^a,b   Purves, Drew W ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIZE STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892435055     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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