Diverging Responses of Tropical Andean Biomes under Future Climate Conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tovar, Carolina ^a,b   Arnillas, Carlos Alberto ^a   Cuesta, Francisco ^c   Buytaert, Wouter ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Biodiversity Department Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina   (Ecuador)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC NAMES; LAND USE; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICA ANDES;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84877152376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063634     Document Type: Article

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