Environmental variation and population responses to global change

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 724-736

  Lawson, Callum R ^a   Vindenes, Yngvild ^b   Bailey, Liam ^c   van de Pol, Martijn ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate fluctuations; Climate variation; Demographic rates; Extreme events; Functional type; Global warming; Stochastic growth rate; Temperature variation; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84931561318     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12437     Document Type: Article

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