Fire and climate: Contrasting pressures on tropical Andean timberline species

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 938-950

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Alfonso Reynolds, Andrea M ^a   Urrego, Dunia H ^a,b   Valencia, Bryan G ^a,c   Correa Metrio, Y Alexander ^d   Zimmermann, Michael ^e   Silman, Miles R ^f  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^f WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Fire; Fossil pollen; Land use; Migration; Shifted baseline; Timberline; Warming

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOSSIL; LAND USE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; TREELINE; WARMING; WOODY PLANT;

MANU NATIONAL PARK; PERU;

EID: 84926450878     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12470     Document Type: Article

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