Current Analogues of Future Climate Indicate the Likely Response of a Sensitive Montane Tropical Avifauna to a Warming World

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Anderson, Alexander S ^a   Storlie, Collin J ^a   Shoo, Luke P ^b   Pearson, Richard G ^a   Williams, Stephen E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FAUNA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84881151360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069393     Document Type: Article

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