Litho-refugia: The importance of rock landscapes for the long-term persistence of Australian rainforest fauna

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 554-560

  Couper, Patrick J ^a   Hoskin, Conrad J ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Invertebrates; Microclimate; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HABITAT QUALITY; INVERTEBRATE; MICROCLIMATE; MIOCENE; PERSISTENCE; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM; ROCK; SEASONAL VARIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 64549105725     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2008.032     Document Type: Article

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