Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Scheffers, Brett R ^a   Evans, Theodore A ^b   Williams, Stephen E ^a   Edwards, David P ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Climate change; Habitat; Habitat shift; Resilience; Tropical

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT TYPE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84943175584     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0819     Document Type: Article

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