A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra

Ambio

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-50

  Elmhagen, Bodil ^a   Kindberg, Jonas ^b,c   Hellström, Peter ^a   Angerbjörn, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aves; Climate change; Land use change; Mammalia; Population cycles; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; CARNIVORE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; MAMMAL; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE EXPANSION; TUNDRA;

SWEDEN;

AVES; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; TUNDRA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; TUNDRA;

EID: 84920837108     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-014-0606-8     Document Type: Article

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