Temporal ecology in the Anthropocene

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1365-1379

  Wolkovich, E M ^a,b,c   Cook, B I ^d,e   McLauchlan, K K ^f,g   Davies, T J ^h,i  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Organismic and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^f KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Climate change; Ecological forecasting; Events; Non stationarity; Scaling; Spatial ecology; Temporal ecology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907810939     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12353     Document Type: Article

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