'Tales of Symphonia': Extinction dynamics in response to past climate change in Madagascan rainforests

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-825

  Virah Sawmy, Malika ^a   Bonsall, Michael B ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competition; Global change; Palaeoecology; Population model; Soil; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; DICOTYLEDON; EXTINCTION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFOREST; SOIL NUTRIENT;

MADAGASCAR;

ERICA; SYMPHONIA; VERRUCOSA;

EID: 70350252932     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0428     Document Type: Article

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