Anticipating the spatio-temporal response of plant diversity and vegetation structure to climate and land use change in a protected area

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1230-1239

  Boulangeat, Isabelle ^a   Georges, Damien ^a   Dentant, Cédric ^b   Bonet, Richard ^b   Van Es, Jérémie ^b   Abdulhak, Sylvain ^b   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b Domaine de Charance ^*  (France)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84913604434     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00694     Document Type: Article

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