Ontario freshwater fishes demonstrate differing range-boundary shifts in a warming climate

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-136

  Alofs, Karen M ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a   Lester, Nigel P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Freshwater fish; Ontario; Range shifts; Species traits

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISPERSAL; FISH; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

PISCES;

EID: 84891831746     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12130     Document Type: Article

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