Using high-resolution future climate scenarios to forecast Bromus tectorum invasion in Rocky Mountain National Park

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  West, Amanda M ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Wakie, Tewodros ^a   Brown, Cynthia S ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^a   Laituri, Melinda ^a   Bromberg, Jim ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b US National Park Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BROMUS TECTORUM; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENTROPY; GERMINATION; HYDROLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROCLIMATE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEED SIZE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WINTER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BROMUS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK;

BROMUS TECTORUM; POACEAE;

ANIMALS; BROMUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923197636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117893     Document Type: Article

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