Early response of the platypus to climate warming

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3011-3018

  Klamt, Melissa ^a   Thompson, Ross ^a   Davis, Jenny ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic envelope modelling; maxent; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Platypus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MONOTREME; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS;

EID: 80052448837     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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