Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 958-966

  Brown, Lee E ^a   Hannah, David M ^b   Milner, Alexander M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Endemic; French Pyr n es; River

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLACIER RETREAT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MELTING; SNOWPACK; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; VULNERABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PYRENEES; WESTERN EUROPE;

DIAMESA LATITARSIS; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HABROLEPTOIDES BERTHELEMYI; PERLA GRANDIS; PLECOPTERA; RHITHROGENA; RHYACOPHILA ANGELIERI; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 34247508321     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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