Extinctions of montane mammals reconsidered: Putting a global-warming scenario on ice

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 759-778

  Skaggs, Roger W ^a   Boecklen, William J ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeographic theory; global warming; montane mammals; nested species distributions; SLOSS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGE; EXTINCTION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MODELLING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030302823     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051785     Document Type: Article

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