Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species' range expansion

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1928-1938

  Cavanaugh, Kyle C ^a,b,c   Parker, John D ^b   Cook Patton, Susan C ^b   Feller, Ilka C ^b   Williams, A Park ^d   Kellner, James R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Laguncularia racemosa; Rhizophora mangle; Avicennia germinans; Climate change; Ecological thresholds; Freeze tolerance; Range expansion; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; FREEZE TOLERANCE; MANGROVE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANGE EXPANSION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVICENNIA GERMINANS; LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ADAPTATION; AVICENNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBRETACEAE; DEMOGRAPHY; FREEZING; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AVICENNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBRETACEAE; DEMOGRAPHY; FLORIDA; FREEZING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84927966802     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12843     Document Type: Article

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