Trait-based climate change predictions of plant community structure in arid steppes - Frenette-Dussault, Cédric; Shipley, Bill; Meziane, Driss; Hingrat, Yves (The Journal of ecology, 2013)
Keywords: Agricultural production; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Cirques; Climate change; Climate effects; Climate prediction; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; community assembly; Community composition; Community structure; Decision making models; Desertification; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Earth, ocean, space; eastern Morocco; Ecosystem studies; Ecosystems; Environmental changes; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Food security; functional traits; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Global climate; grazing; Human ecology; Human populations; Maximum entropy; Meteorology; Modeling; Plant communities; Plant ecology; Plants; Prediction models; Species; species pool; Steppes; Synecology; Vegetation; vegetation dynamics; Morocco; Africa; Central America; Community structure; eastern Morocco; grazing; Plant community; Arid environment; Functional trait; Diversity; maximum entropy; Entropy; Vegetation dynamics; Climate prediction; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; species pool; Steppe; functional traits; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Community; community assembly