A crucial step toward realism: Responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 154-167

  Urban, Mark C ^a   De Meester, Luc ^b   Vellend, Mark ^c   Stoks, Robby ^b   Vanoverbeke, Joost ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community ecology; Contemporary evolution; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857605439     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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