Feedbacks and landscape-level vegetation dynamics

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 255-260

  Bowman, David M J S ^a   Perry, George L W ^b,c   Marston, J B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Ecosystem dynamics; Explanation; Feedbacks; Fire; Landscape ecology; Macroecology; Megafauna; Modelling; Savanna boundary

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIRE; FOREST; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDBACK; FIRES; FORESTS; HERBIVORY; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84928757980     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.005     Document Type: Review

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