Disturbance and climate microrefugia mediate tree range shifts during climate change

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1039-1053

  Serra Diaz, Josep M ^a   Scheller, Robert M ^b   Syphard, Alexandra D ^c   Franklin, Janet ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest dynamics; LANDIS II; Range change; Succession

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FACILITATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM; SUCCESSION;

EID: 84930273143     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0173-9     Document Type: Article

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