Global population dynamics and hot spots of response to climate change

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 489-497

  Post, Eric ^a,b   Brodie, Jedediah ^a   Hebblewhite, Mark ^c   Anders, Angela D ^d   Maier, Julie A K ^e   Wilmers, Christopher C ^f  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope modeling; Environmental niche model; Extinction; Global warming; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349164279     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.6.7     Document Type: Article

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