Genetically informed ecological niche models improve climate change predictions

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 164-176

  Ikeda, Dana H ^a   Max, Tamara L ^b   Allan, Gerard J ^a   Lau, Matthew K ^c   Shuster, Stephen M ^a   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; ecological niche models; ecotypes; foundation species; genetic differentiation; local adaptation; niche divergence; species distributions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MODELING; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

POPULUS FREMONTII; SALICACEAE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GENETIC VARIATION; TREE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GENETIC VARIATION; TREES;

EID: 84987660706     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13470     Document Type: Article

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