Impacts of climate variability and human colonization on the vegetation of the Galápagos Islands

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1853-1866

  Restrepo, Alejandra ^a,f   Colinvaux, Paul ^b   Bush, Mark ^a   Correa Metrio, Alexander ^a,g   Conroy, Jessica ^c,h   Gardener, Mark R ^d,i   Jaramillo, Patricia ^d   Steinitz Kannan, Miriam ^e   Overpeck, Jonathan ^c  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^e NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^h GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud; El Ni o; Exotic invasive species; Extinction; Gal pagos; Human impact; La ni a; Paleoecology; Rate of ecological change; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOLOCENE; IMMIGRATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LA NINA; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MEDIEVAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ACALYPHA; ALTERNANTHERA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864706695     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1545.1     Document Type: Article

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