Climate change, species distribution models, and physiological performance metrics: Predicting when biogeographic models are likely to fail

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3334-3346

  Woodin, Sarah A ^a   Hilbish, Thomas J ^a   Helmuth, Brian ^a,b   Jones, Sierra J ^a,c   Wethey, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Niche models; Physiological mechanism; Physiological performance; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887737710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.680     Document Type: Article

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