Constraints to species' elevational range shifts as climate changes;Restricciones a los Cambios de Rango Altitudinal de Especies a Medida que Cambia el Clima

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 163-171

  Forero Medina, German ^a   Joppa, Lucas ^b   Pimm, Stuart L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Montane species; Range shifts; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; LAND USE; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION;

ALTITUDE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOMBIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALTITUDE; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOMBIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COLOMBIA; MAGDALENA; SANTA MARTA;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 78751678732     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01572.x     Document Type: Article

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