Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1335-1341

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Climate change; Conservation biogeography; GBIF; Global warming; Natural history collections; Species distribution models; Species migrations

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIEBACK; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBARIUM; PLANT COMMUNITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84858446731     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02602.x     Document Type: Article

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