Montane forest ecotones moved downslope in northeastern USA in spite of warming between 1984 and 2011

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4497-4507

  Foster, Jane R ^a   D'Amato, Anthony W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Picea rubens; Climate migration; Decline; Disturbance; Ecotones; Forest dynamics; Global change; Species range shifts

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; MONTANE FOREST; POPULATION DECLINE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WARNING SYSTEM;

UNITED STATES;

PICEA RUBENS;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERMONT;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT; VERMONT;

EID: 84947045463     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13046     Document Type: Article

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