Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-172

  MacDonald, G M ^a   Bennett, K D ^b   Jackson, S T ^c   Parducci, L ^d   Smith, F A ^e   Smol, J P ^f   Willis, K J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Climate change; Dendrochronology; DNA; Palaeobiogeography; Palaeolimnology; Palynology; Vertebrate palaeontology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DNA; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55249103634     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133308094081     Document Type: Article

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