Late quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity

Nature

Volumn 532, Issue 7597, 2016, Pages 99-102

  Weigelt, Patrick ^a   Steinbauer, Manuel Jonas ^b,c   Cabral, Juliano Sarmento ^a,d   Kreft, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION; ISLAND; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GLACIAL PERIOD; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LATE QUATERNARY; NATIVE SPECIES; OCEAN CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ALTITUDE; ANGIOSPERM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

SEA WATER;

ALTITUDE; ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; INTERNATIONALITY; ISLANDS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84963516019     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17443     Document Type: Article

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