Upslope migration of Andean trees

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 783-791

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b   Silman, Miles R ^c   Bush, Mark B ^d   Farfan, William ^c   Cabrera, Karina Garcia ^c   Malhi, Yadvinder ^e   Meir, Patrick ^f   Revilla, Norma Salinas ^e,g   Quisiyupanqui, Mireya Natividad Raurau ^c   Saatchi, Sassan ^h,i  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate change; Climatic envelope; Cloud forest; Extinction; Forest plots; Global warming; Monitoring; Peru; Species migration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLOUD FOREST; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION RISK; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SLOPE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MANU NATIONAL PARK; PERU;

EID: 79952684476     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02444.x     Document Type: Article

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