Extinction vulnerability of tropical montane endemism from warming and upslope displacement: A preliminary appraisal for the highest massif in Madagascar

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1703-1720

  Raxworthy, Christopher J ^a   Pearson, Richard G ^a   Rabibisoa, Nirhy ^b   Rakotondrazafy, Andry M ^b   Ramanamanjato, Jean Baptiste ^b   Raselimanana, Achille P ^b   Wu, Shenghai ^c   Nussbaum, Ronald A ^d   Stone, Dáithí A ^e  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Conservation; Distribution; Elevation shifts; Endemism; Extinction; Global warming; Madagascar; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT LOSS; MONTANE FOREST; PHENOLOGY; REPTILE; VULNERABILITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 48949107737     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01596.x     Document Type: Article

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