A geographic mosaic of climate change impacts on terrestrial vegetation: Which areas are most at risk?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Ackerly, David D ^a   Cornwell, William K ^b   Weiss, Stuart B ^c   Flint, Lorraine E ^d   Flint, Alan L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Creekside Center for Earth Observation   (United States)

^d Water Resources Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PLAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVERGREEN RAIN FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCRUB; TAIGA; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLANTS;

EID: 84938513242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130629     Document Type: Article

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