Potential source and sink locations for climate-driven species range shifts in Europe since the Last Glacial Maximum

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-163

  Ohlemüller, Ralf ^a   Huntley, Brian ^a   Normand, Signe ^b,c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analogue; Climate change; Dispersal; Europe; Pleistocene ice age; Range dynamics; Refugia; Species migration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION MIGRATION; RANGE EXPANSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FENNOSCANDIA; SPAIN; TURKEY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84855526916     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00674.x     Document Type: Article

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