Incorporating climate change and exotic species into forecasts of riparian forest distribution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ikeda, Dana H ^a   Grady, Kevin C ^a   Shuster, Stephen M ^a   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EXOTIC SPECIES; HABITAT; MODEL; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULUS; PREVALENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN SPECIES; WILLOW; FOREST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAMARICACEAE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAMARICACEAE;

EID: 84933059866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107037     Document Type: Article

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