Climate change is unlikely to cause a biodiversity crisis: Evidence from northen latitude tree responses to warming

Energy and Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 147-154

  Loehle, Craig ^a  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; TREE;

EID: 84896779273     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.25.1.147     Document Type: Article

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