Projected range contractions of montane biodiversity under global warming

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3401-3410

  La Sorte, Frank A ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal; Extinction risk; Geographical range; Global warming; Mountain biodiversity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFROTROPIC ECOZONE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; HARBOR; NEARCTIC ECOZONE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA;

AVES;

EID: 78149274500     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0612     Document Type: Article

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