How will climate variability interact with long-term climate change to affect the persistence of plant species in fragmented landscapes?

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 110-121

  Renton, Michael ^a,b   Shackelford, Nancy ^a   Standish, Rachel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Forest and Woodland Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; climate variability; dispersal; fragmented landscapes; migration; plant persistence; simulation model; spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESTORATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DISPERSAL; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; MIGRATION; PLANT PERSISTENCE; SIMULATION MODEL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84899975096     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892913000490     Document Type: Article

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