Niche conservatism above the species level

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

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 19707-19714

  Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Spaeth, Paula A ^b,c   Li, Cheng ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extinction; Geographic range size; Mammals; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; HOLOCENE; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; MAMMAL; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MAMMALS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 73949110363     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901648106     Document Type: Article

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