Recovery dynamics and climate change effects to future New England forests

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1385-1397

  Duveneck, Matthew J ^a   Thompson, Jonathan R ^a   Gustafson, Eric J ^c   Liang, Yu ^a,d   de Bruijn, Arjan M G ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forests; LANDIS II; New England; Recovery dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; SHADE TOLERANCE; TREE;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978087254     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0415-5     Document Type: Article

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