Compositional shifts in costa rican forests due to climate-driven species migrations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3472-3480

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b   Hurtado, Johanna ^c   Saatchi, Sassan ^d,e   Silman, Miles R ^f   Clark, David B ^g  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^c Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud forest; Extinction; Forest inventory plots; Global warming; Species migrations; Thermal distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD FOREST; EXTINCTION; FOREST INVENTORY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; MIGRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE;

COSTA RICA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD FOREST; COSTA RICA; EXTINCTION; FOREST INVENTORY PLOTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SPECIES MIGRATIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD FOREST; EXTINCTION; FOREST INVENTORY PLOTS; GLOBAL WARMING; SPECIES MIGRATIONS; THERMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COSTA RICA; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84885419243     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12300     Document Type: Article

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