A genetics-based Universal Community Transfer Function for predicting the impacts of climate change on future communities

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-74

  Ikeda, Dana H ^a   Bothwell, Helen M ^a   Lau, Matthew K ^a   O'Neill, Gregory A ^b   Grady, Kevin C ^a   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community genetics; Functional traits; Provenance trial; Universal Community Transfer Function

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; MIGRATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; PROVENANCE TRIAL; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 84892874790     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12151     Document Type: Article

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