Tolerance adaptation and precipitation changes complicate latitudinal patterns of climate change impacts

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

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12581-12586

  Bonebrake, Timothy C ^a   Mastrandrea, Michael D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental tolerance; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WARMING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955456058     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911841107     Document Type: Article

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