Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1236-1245

  Mccain, Christy M ^a   Colwell, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians and reptiles; Bioclimatic models; Birds; Climate change; Elevation; Mammals; Mountains; Precipitation; Range contraction; Temperature

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AMPHIBIAN; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMISM; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REPTILE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE;

LATIN AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80855135461     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01695.x     Document Type: Article

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