Influence of climate changes on animal communities in space and time: The case of spider assemblages along an alpine glacier foreland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1985-1992

  Gobbi, Mauro ^a   Fontaneto, Diego ^a   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Altitudinal shift; Araneae; Forni Glacier; Glacier retreats; Global change; Species richness; Threshold effect

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CTENIDAE;

EID: 33748646133     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01236.x     Document Type: Article

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