The subnivium: A deteriorating seasonal refugium

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 260-267

  Pauli, Jonathan N ^a   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a   Whiteman, John P ^b   Porter, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERWINTERING; REFUGIUM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WARMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878561925     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120222     Document Type: Article

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