Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 19685-19692

  Jackson, Stephen T ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b   Booth, Robert K ^c   Gray, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Paleoecology; Regeneration niche

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 73949093794     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901644106     Document Type: Article

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