Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1979-1991

  Clark, James S ^a,b   Bell, David M ^a   Kwit, Matthew C ^a   Zhu, Kai ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; Demography; Drought; Forest diversity; Interactions; Prediction; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; FOREST DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; TREES;

EID: 84900012878     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12425     Document Type: Article

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