Climate-associated population declines reverse recovery and threaten future of an iconic high-elevation plant

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 911-922

  Krushelnycky, Paul D ^a   Loope, Lloyd L ^b   Giambelluca, Thomas W ^a   Starr, Forest ^a   Starr, Kim ^a   Drake, Donald R ^a   Taylor, Andrew D ^a   Robichaux, Robert H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine plants; Argyroxyphium sandwicense; Biodiversity loss; Climate change ecology; Hotspot; Population declines; Silversword

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MORTALITY; PLANT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARGYROXIPHIUM; ARGYROXIPHIUM SANDWICENSE SUBSP. MACROCEPHALUM;

EID: 84873204501     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12111     Document Type: Article

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