Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 619-622

  Dullinger, Stefan ^a,b   Gattringer, Andreas ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c   Moser, Dietmar ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^d   Guisan, Antoine ^e   Willner, Wolfgang ^a   Plutzar, Christoph ^a,f   Leitner, Michael ^b,g   Mang, Thomas ^a,b   Caccianiga, Marco ^h   Dirnböck, Thomas ⁱ   Ertl, Siegrun ^b   Fischer, Anton ^g   Lenoir, Jonathan ^j,k   Svenning, Jens Christian ^j   Psomas, Achilleas ^d   Schmatz, Dirk R ^d   Silc, Urban ^l   Vittoz, Pascal ^e   Hülber, Karl ^a   more..

^a Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁱ ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^j AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^l ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MASS EXTINCTION; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE SIZE; SEED DISPERSAL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ALPS;

EID: 84864479329     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1514     Document Type: Article

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