Altitudinal shifts of the native and introduced flora of California in the context of 20th-century warming

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 418-429

  Wolf, Adam ^a   Zimmerman, Naupaka B ^b   Anderegg, William R L ^a   Busby, Posy E ^c   Christensen, Jon ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Consortium of California Herbaria; Endemism; Invasive species; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Sample bias correction; Seed size

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDEMISM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958078624     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12423     Document Type: Article

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