Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1095-1103

  Quintero, Ignacio ^a   Wiens, John J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Extinction; Niche evolution; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880336245     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12144     Document Type: Article

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