Evaluating the combined effects of climate and land-use change on tree species distributions

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 902-912

  García Valdés, Raúl ^a,b,c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^d   Zavala, Miguel A ^b   Purves, Drew W ^e   Araújo, Miguel B ^a,f,g  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Climatic disequilibrium; Deforestation; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean; Metapopulation dynamics; Non equilibrium dynamics; Reforestation; Stochastic patch occupancy model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFORESTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84948718012     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12453     Document Type: Article

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