Glacier foreland colonisation: Distinguishing between short-term and long-term effects of climate change

Oecologia

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 470-475

  Kaufmann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine environment; Arthropods; Epigean fauna; Global warming; Primary succession

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERTEBRATE; SUCCESSION;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036932375     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-001-0815-2     Document Type: Article

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