Contrasting effects of climate change along life stages of a dominant tree species: The importance of soil-climate interactions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 872-883

  Ibáñez, Beatriz ^a   Ibáñez, Inés ^b   Gómez Aparicio, Lorena ^a   Ruiz Benito, Paloma ^c,d   García, Luis V ^a   Marañón, Teodoro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Declining forest; Demographic rates; Establishment; Forest inventory data; Mediterranean region

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SANDY SOIL; SEEDLING; SOIL TEXTURE; SURVIVAL;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84904040004     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12193     Document Type: Article

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