Disappearance of boreal plants in southern Britain: Habitat loss or climate change?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 598-610

  Hill, Mark O ^a   Preston, Christopher D ^b  

^a NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Environmental change; Vascular

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DECLINE; RECORD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VASCULAR PLANT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84931091721     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12500     Document Type: Article

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