Climate envelope models suggest spatio-temporal co-occurrence of refugia of African birds and mammals

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 351-363

  Levinsky, Irina ^a,b   Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b,c   Nogués Bravo, David ^a,b   Haywood, Alan M ^d   Valdes, Paul J ^e   Rahbek, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Bioclimatic envelope models; Birds; Hindcasting; Last Glacial Maximum; Mammals; Tropical refugia

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; REFUGIUM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANGOLA; CAMEROON; CONGO BASIN; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84873970367     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12045     Document Type: Article

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