The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1577, 2011, Pages 2526-2535

  Jonathan Davies, T ^a   Buckley, Lauren B ^b   Grenyer, Richard ^c,d   Gittleman, John L ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversity; Glaciation; Range size; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARRYING CAPACITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEOCLIMATE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; ICE COVER; MAMMAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79961042040     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0018     Document Type: Article

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