Comparative phylogeography highlights the double-edged sword of climate change faced by arctic- and alpine-adapted mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lanier, Hayley C ^a,c   Gunderson, Aren M ^a   Weksler, Marcelo ^a,d   Fedorov, Vadim B ^b   Olson, Link E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE TUNDRA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC GROUND SQUIRREL; ARTICLE; BROWN LEMMING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TOLERANCE; COLLATED PIKA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIATION; HOARY MARMOT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINGING VOLE; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNITED STATES; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

LEMMUS; MAMMALIA; MARMOTA CALIGATA; MICROTUS MIURUS; OCHOTONA COLLARIS; SPERMOPHILUS PARRYII;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMALS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84928914701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118396     Document Type: Article

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