Climatic and biotic velocities for woody taxa distributions over the last 16 000 years in eastern North America

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 773-781

  Ordonez, Alejandro ^a   Williams, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic velocity; Climate change; Climate velocity; Holocene; Palaeoecology; Pleistocene; Pollen; Quaternary; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749089     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12110     Document Type: Article

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