Elevational shifts of freshwater communities cannot catch up climatewarming in the Himalaya

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Li, Fengqing ^a   Shah, Deep Narayan ^b   Pauls, Steffen U ^c   Qu, Xiaodong ^d   Cai, Qinghua ^a   Shah, Ram Devi Tachamo ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)   (Nepal)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^d CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^e TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrate; Climate warming; Community temperature index; Mountain; Species distribution model; Upward shift

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CLIMATE WARMING; COMMUNITY TEMPERATURES; MOUNTAIN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING; UPWARD SHIFT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERTEBRATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; MOUNTAIN STREAM; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

HIMALAYAS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84984622180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8080327     Document Type: Article

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