Will tropical mountaintop plant species survive climate change? Identifying key knowledge gaps using species distribution modelling in Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 191, Issue , 2015, Pages 322-330

  Costion, Craig M ^a,b   Simpson, Lalita ^a   Pert, Petina L ^a,c   Carlsen, Monica M ^b   John Kress, W ^b   Crayn, Darren ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Cloud forest; Endemics; Range shifts; Threatened species; Wet Tropics

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD FOREST; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; NICHE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TROPICAL REGION;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84937946474     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.022     Document Type: Article

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