Climate change and elevational diversity capacity: Do weedy species take up the slack?

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chown, Steven L ^a,b   Le Roux, Peter C ^a   Ramaswiela, Tshililo ^a   Kalwij, Jesse M ^c   Shaw, Justine D ^a   McGeoch, Melodie A ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elevational gradients; Species richness; Species energy theory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANTARCTICA; MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

ALTITUDE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; WEED;

ALTITUDE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT WEEDS;

EID: 84872047538     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0806     Document Type: Article

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