Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 611-615

  Pounds, J Alan ^a,b   Fogden, Michael P L ^a,b   Campbell, John H ^a  

^a Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve T   (Costa Rica)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MONTANE FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLOUD; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAUNA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; AVES; BUFO PERIGLENES; PICA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033560891     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19297     Document Type: Article

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