The impact of climate change on mammal diversity in Canada

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 263-270

  Kerr, Jeremy ^a   Packer, Laurence ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Latitudinal gradients; Mammal species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL SPECIES RICHNESS;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; OCEAN HABITATS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT LOSS; MAMMAL; MAMMALS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ARCTIC; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN;

CANADA;

ANIMALIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DICROSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; DIRCOSTONYX; DIRCOSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032007599     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005846910199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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