Models of climate associations and distributions of amphibians in Italy

Ecological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-111

  Girardello, Marco ^a   Griggio, Matteo ^b   Whittingham, Mark J ^a   Rushton, Stephen P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Climate change; Distribution; Italy; Random Forests

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ITALY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951091178     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-009-0636-z     Document Type: Article

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