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SUBMITTER: Serra-Diaz JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5928035 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Serra-Diaz Josep M JM Maxwell Charles C Lucash Melissa S MS Scheller Robert M RM Laflower Danelle M DM Miller Adam D AD Tepley Alan J AJ Epstein Howard E HE Anderson-Teixeira Kristina J KJ Thompson Jonathan R JR
Scientific reports 20180430 1
The impacts of climatic changes on forests may appear gradually on time scales of years to centuries due to the long generation times of trees. Consequently, current forest extent may not reflect current climatic patterns. In contrast with these lagged responses, abrupt transitions in forests under climate change may occur in environments where alternative vegetation states are influenced by disturbances, such as fire. The Klamath forest landscape (northern California and southwest Oregon, USA) ...[more]