Climate change creates rapid species turnover in montane communities

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2340-2347

  Gibson Reinemer, Daniel K ^a   Sheldon, Kimberly S ^a   Rahel, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disassembly; Range shift; Species' distributions; Species' turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931562445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1518     Document Type: Article

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