Grasshopper community response to climatic change: Variation along an elevational gradient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Nufio, César R ^a,b   McGuire, Chris R ^a,b   Bowers, M Deane ^a,b   Guralnick, Robert P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GRASSHOPPER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWING SEASON; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77958572860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012977     Document Type: Article

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