Parallel responses of species and genetic diversity to El Niño Southern Oscillation-induced environmental destruction

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 304-310

  Cleary, Daniel F R ^a,b   Fauvelot, Cécile ^a   Genner, Martin J ^c   Menken, Steph B J ^a   Mooers, Arne Ø ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; El Ni o; Extirpation; Forest fire; Genetic loss; Recovery; Species loss; Species genetic diversity correlation; Time scale

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DISTURBANCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENETIC VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33644959698     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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