Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Forero Medina, German ^a   Terborgh, John ^a   Socolar, S Jacob ^b   Pimm, Stuart L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITOR SPECIES; ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PERU; SPECIES COMPARISON; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPICAL MONTANE; TROPICS; WARMING; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 82855168060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028535     Document Type: Article

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