Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo's vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 12741-12745

  Morueta Holme, Naia ^a,b   Engemann, Kristine ^a   Sandoval Acuña, Pablo ^c   Jonas, Jeremy D ^d,e   Segnitz, R Max ^f   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e Tucson High Magnet School   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate change; Land use change; Range shifts; Tropical biodiversity

Indexed keywords

CHUQUIRAGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENTIAN; GENTIANELLA; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; VEGETATION; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; METABOLISM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; PLANTS;

EID: 84944081104     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509938112     Document Type: Article

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