Potential for mountaintop boulder fields to buffer species against extreme heat stress under climate change

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-478

  Shoo, Luke P ^a   Storlie, Collin ^a   Williams, Yvette M ^a   Williams, Stephen E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buffering; Climate change; Heat stress; Microhabitat; Refugia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FROGS AND TOADS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE; ANURA; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROCLIMATE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77954213491     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-009-0286-4     Document Type: Article

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