A 10-year decrease in plant species richness on a neotropical inselberg: Detrimental effects of global warming?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2360-2374

  Fonty, Emile ^a   Sarthou, Corinne ^a   Larpin, Denis ^a   Ponge, Jean François ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Aridity; Biodiversity loss; Global warming; Low forest; Plant communities; Tropical inselberg

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

SOUTH AMERICA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70149122606     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01923.x     Document Type: Article

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