Climate-suitable planting as a strategy for maintaining forest productivity and functional diversity

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1653-1668

  Duveneck, Matthew J ^a   Scheller, Robert M ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual net primary productivity; Assisted migration; Carbon emission scenarios; Climatesuitable planting; Forest simulation modeling; Functional diversity; Great Lakes region; LANDIS II model; Managed relocation; USA

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELOCATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHIGAN; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84941219294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0738.1     Document Type: Article

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