Influence of land use and climate on recent forest expansion: A case study in the Eurosiberian-Mediterranean limit of north-west Spain

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 905-919

  Álvarez Martínez, Jose Manuel ^a   Suárez Seoane, Susana ^a   Stoorvogel, Jetse J ^b   de Luis Calabuig, Estanislao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Forest expansion; Land cover change monitoring; Paleoecology and land use history; Solar radiation; Species distribution modelling; Vegetation shifts

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGE EXPANSION; SOIL PROFILE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; SPAIN;

EID: 84903197642     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12257     Document Type: Article

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