Forecasting climate change effects on salamander distribution in the highlands of central Mexico

Biotropica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 202-208

  Parra Olea, Gabriela ^a   Martínez Meyer, Enrique ^a   Pérez Ponce De León, Gerardo ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Climate change; Ecological niche modeling; Mexico; Plethodontid salamanders; Pseudoeurycea cephalica; Pseudoeurycea leprosa

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NICHE; POPULATION DECLINE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; PLETHODONTIDAE; PSEUDOEURYCEA CEPHALICA; PSEUDOEURYCEA LEPROSA;

EID: 20444371605     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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