Phenology, ontogeny and the effects of climate change on the timing of species interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Yang, Louie H ^a   Rudolf, V H W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition; Development; Global warming; Match mismatch; Mistiming; Mutualism; Phenology; Predation; Size structure

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; MUTUALISM; ONTOGENY; PHENOLOGY; PREDATION; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72949105333     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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