Asplenium bird's nest ferns in rainforest canopies are climate-contingent refuges for frogs

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-46

  Scheffers, Brett R ^a,b   Phillips, Ben L ^b,c   Shoo, Luke P ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ectotherm; Functionality; Microhabitat; Precipitation; Refuge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915821182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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