Islands in the sky or squeezed at the top? Ecological causes of elevational range limits in montane salamanders

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-203

  Gifford, Matthew E ^a,b   Kozak, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ISLAND; MONTANE FOREST; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

APPALACHIANS; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; HARNESS; PLETHODON JORDANI; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84857799922     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06866.x     Document Type: Article

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