History matters: Ecometrics and integrative climate change biology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1709, 2011, Pages 1131-1140

  Polly, P David ^a   Eronen, Jussi T ^b   Fred, Marianne ^c   Dietl, Gregory P ^d   Mosbrugger, Volker ^e   Scheidegger, Christoph ^f   Frank, David C ^f,g   Damuth, John ^h   Stenseth, Nils C ⁱ   Fortelius, Mikael ^b,j  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Finland)

^d PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Climate change; Ecometrics; Scalability; Species interactions; Traits

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA SET; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960059194     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2233     Document Type: Review

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