Potential consequences of climate warming for tropical plant species in high mountains of southern Ethiopia

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 593-605

  Kreyling, Juergen ^a   Wana, Desalegn ^a,b   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Climate change; Conservation biogeography; Range contraction; Range shift; Tropical high mountains

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; FERN; GLOBAL WARMING; HERB; ISOTHERM; MOUNTAIN; NEW SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; UPLAND REGION; VULNERABILITY;

ETHIOPIA;

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 77954651866     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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