Impacts of warming on tropical lowland rainforests

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 606-613

  Corlett, Richard T ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80054085620     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.06.015     Document Type: Review

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