Assessing and comparing risk to climate changes among forested locations: Implications for ecosystem services

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-228

  Matthews, Stephen N ^a,b   Iverson, Louis R ^b   Peters, Matthew P ^b   Prasad, Anantha M ^b   Subburayalu, Sakthi ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eastern United States; Ecosystem services; Forest composition; Prediction; Trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894337413     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9965-y     Document Type: Article

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