Incorporating climate change and exotic species into forecasts of riparian forest distribution.

We examined the impact climate change (CC) will have on the availability of climatically suitable habitat for three native and one exotic riparian species. Due to its increasing prevalence in arid regions throughout the western US, we predicted that an exotic species, Tamarix, would have the greates...

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Main Authors: Dana H Ikeda, Kevin C Grady, Stephen M Shuster, Thomas G Whitham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4162564?pdf=render