Close agreement between pollen-based and forest inventory-based models of vegetation turnover

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 905-916

  Nieto Lugilde, Diego ^a   Maguire, Kaitlin C ^b   Blois, Jessica L ^b   Williams, John W ^c   Fitzpatrick, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Forest inventories; Fossil; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; Palaeoecology; Pollen; Quaternary; Turnover; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST INVENTORY; FOSSIL RECORD; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TURNOVER; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936181422     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12300     Document Type: Article

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