Parapatric species and the implications for climate change studies: A case study on hares in Europe

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1509-1519

  Acevedo, Pelayo ^a,b,c   Jiménez Valverde, Alberto ^a   Melo Ferreira, José ^b   Real, Raimundo ^a   Alves, Paulo Célio ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic interactions; Climate change; Favourability function; Parapatry; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LAGOMORPH; PARAPATRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EUROPE;

LEPUS; LEPUS GRANATENSIS;

EID: 84859491632     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02655.x     Document Type: Article

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