Quaternary climate change and the geographic ranges of mammals

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-307

  Davies, T Jonathan ^a   Purvis, Andy ^b   Gittleman, John L ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal filter; Extinction filter; Habitat specificity; Quaternary climate; Range size; Sister contrasts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; QUATERNARY; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; RECOLONIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70249108545     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603614     Document Type: Article

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