On a collision course: Competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1735, 2012, Pages 2072-2080

  Urban, Mark C ^a   Tewksbury, Josh J ^b   Sheldon, Kimberly S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community ecology; Competition; Dispersal; Movement ecology; Thermal performance breadth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MOVEMENT; NICHE BREADTH; WARMING;

EID: 84859398275     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2367     Document Type: Article

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