Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 3725-3734

  Franklin, Janet ^a   Serra Diaz, Josep M ^a,b   Syphard, Alexandra D ^c   Regan, Helen M ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Forests; Global change; Land use change

Indexed keywords

WATER; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIRE; FLUID BALANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANT NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL PLANT; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84962744047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519911113     Document Type: Article

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