Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 772-776

  Elsen, Paul R ^a   Tingley, Morgan W ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ELEVATION; EXTINCTION RISK; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURFACE AREA; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROUGH; WARMING;

EID: 84937857023     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2656     Document Type: Article

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