Acknowledgements

Dr. Andreas Hamann, Dept. of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta: for insight, direction, and enthusiasm.

The U. of A. 2007 RenR 501 Class: for their presentations and lab assistance!

Starbucks Coffee: for producing caffeinated beverages.

 

Related Links

 The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Renewable Resources Dept. at the University of Alberta
The Centre for Climate Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison (CCM1 Data)
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
World Data Centre for Paleoclimatology (National Climate Data Centre)
ESRI - Producers of ArcGIS Software Packages
SAS - Producers of Statistics & Business Software

 

References

Gajewski, K. (1993). "The Role of Paleoecology in the Study of Global Climatic-Change." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 79(1-2): 141-151.

Guisan, A. and N. E. Zimmermann (2000). "Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology." Ecological Modelling 135(2-3): 147-186.

Hamann, A. and T. L. Wang (2005). "Models of climatic normals for genecology and climate change studies in British Columbia." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 128(3-4): 211-221.

Hamann, A. and T. L. Wang (2006). "Potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species distribution in British Columbia." Ecology 87(11): 2773-2786.

Jackson, S. T. and J. T. Overpeck (2000). "Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary." Paleobiology 26(4): 194-220.

Kutzbach, J. E. (1988). "Climatic Changes of the Last 18,000 Years - Observations and Model Simulations." Science 241(4869): 1043-1052.

Kutzbach, J. E. and P. J. Guetter (1986). "The Influence of Changing Orbital Parameters and Surface Boundary-Conditions on Climate Simulations for the Past 18000 Years." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 43(16): 1726-1759.

Manly, B. F. J. (2005). Multivariate Statistical Methods: A Primer. 3rd Ed. Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Natural Regions Committee 2006. Natural Regions and Subregions of Alberta. Compiled by D.J. Downing and W.W. Pettapiece. Government of Alberta. Pub. No. T/852.

Newman, J. A. (2006). "Using the output from global circulation models to predict changes in the distribution and abundance of cereal aphids in Canada: a mechanistic modeling approach." Global Change Biology 12(9): 1634-1642.

Oldfield, F. (2003) "The Holocene, A Special Time." in Global Change in the Holocene. Mackay, A., R. Battarbee, J. Birks and F. Oldfield, eds. Oxford University Press, New York.

Parmesan, C., T. L. Root, et al. (2000). "Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestrial biota." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81(3): 443-450. (As cited in Hamann, 2006).

Peltier, W. R. (1998). "Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: Implications for climate dynamics and solid-earth geophysics." Reviews of Geophysics 36(4): 603-689.

Pojar, J., K. Klinka, et al. (1987). "Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification in British-Columbia." Forest Ecology and Management 22(1-2): 119-154.

Rogers, R. A., L. A. Rogers, et al. (1992). "How the Door Opened - the Peopling of the New-World." Human Biology 64(3): 281-302.

Wang, T., A. Hamann, et al. (2006). "Development of scale-free climate data for western Canada for use in resource management." International Journal of Climatology 26(3): 383-397.

Williams, J. W., D. M. Post, et al. (2002). "Rapid and widespread vegetation responses to past climate change in the North Atlantic region." Geology 30(11): 971-974.

<<<< Back to Future Directions | Top of this page | Back Home >>>>

© 2007 - David Roberts, University of Alberta