Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1249, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-190

  Gilg, Olivier ^a,b,c   Kovacs, Kit M ^d   Aars, Jon ^d   Fort, Jérôme ^e   Gauthier, Gilles ^f   Grémillet, David ^g   Ims, Rolf A ^h   Meltofte, Hans ^e   Moreau, Jérôme ^a   Post, Eric ⁱ   Schmidt, Niels Martin ^e   Yannic, Glenn ^c,f   Bollache, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique (GREA)   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^g CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptations; Geese; Impacts; Large herbivores; Lemmings; Marine mammals; Mismatches; Parasites; Phenological changes; Plasticity; Polar bear; Range shifts; Rodents; Sea ice; Seabirds; Shorebirds; Threat; Trophic interactions; Tundra

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY BALANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT QUALITY; ICE SHEET; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TUNDRA; VERTEBRATE; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; URSUS MARITIMUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857481095     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06412.x     Document Type: Article

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