Forest resilience, tipping points and global change processes

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Reyer, Christopher P O ^a   Rammig, Anja ^a   Brouwers, Niels ^b   Langerwisch, Fanny ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest management; Mechanism; Mortality; Paleo ecology; Plant climate interactions; Regime shifts; Seedling recruitment; Spatio temporal scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921900320     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12342     Document Type: Article

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