Modeling Species and Community Responses to Past, Present, and Future Episodes of Climatic and Ecological Change

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 343-368

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community level models (CLMs); Databases; Ecological change; Ecological niche models (ENMs); Paleoecoinformatics; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PALEOECOLOGY;

EID: 84948994045     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054441     Document Type: Article

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