Climate change and community disassembly: Impacts of warming on tropical and temperate montane community structure

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1191-1200

  Sheldon, Kimberly S ^a   Yang, Sylvia ^a   Tewksbury, Joshua J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Ectotherms; Elevational gradient; Endotherms; Extinction risk; Geographical range; Latitude; Mountain biodiversity; Range shifts; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855124234     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01689.x     Document Type: Article

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