Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1794, 2014, Pages

  Brown, Carissa D ^a,b   Vellend, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acer saccharum; Biotic interactions; Climate change; Range expansion; Seed predation; Substrate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SEED PREDATION; SOIL PROPERTY; SUBSTRATE;

ACER SACCHARUM;

EID: 84908125588     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1779     Document Type: Article

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