Changes in species interactions across a 2.5km elevation gradient: Effects on plant migration in response to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3205-3214

  Hillyer, Rachel ^a   Silman, Miles R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate change; Demography; Life table response experiment; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Species interactions; Species migration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANDES; PERU;

EID: 78349299814     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02268.x     Document Type: Article

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