Insects Overshoot the Expected Upslope Shift Caused by Climate Warming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bässler, Claus ^a   Hothorn, Torsten ^b   Brandl, Roland ^c   Müller, Jörg ^a  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIRD; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYMENOPTERA; NONHUMAN; SEED PLANT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84878806479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065842     Document Type: Article

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