The legacy of past climate and landscape change on species'current experienced climate and elevation ranges across latitude: A multispecies study utilizing mammals in western North America

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 505-518

  Guralnick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Climate change; Climate variability; Latitudinal gradients; Niche conservation; Orbitally forced range dynamics; Random distributions; Species distributions; Temperature tolerance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAMMAL; NICHE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748141112     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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