Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2054-2070

  Beever, Erik A ^a,b   Ray, Chris ^c   Wilkening, Jenifer L ^a,c   Brussard, Peter F ^a   Mote, Philip W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American pika; Environmental change; Great Basin ecoregion; Information theoretic analysis; Local extinction determinants; Model updating; Montane biotas; Ochotona princeps; Upslope range retraction

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOREGION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; RANGE SIZE; SMALL MAMMAL;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OCHOTONIDAE;

EID: 79955028954     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02389.x     Document Type: Article

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