Mobile hotspots and refugia of avian diversity in the mountains of south-west China under past and contemporary global climate change

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 615-626

  Wu, Yongjie ^a,b   DuBay, Shane G ^c,d   Colwell, Robert K ^e,f   Ran, Jianghong ^a   Lei, Fumin ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity corridor; biodiversity hotspot; climate change; climate modelling; elevational gradient; endemism; glacial period; Hengduan Mountains; refugia; Sichuan Basin

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOZONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCLIMATE; REFUGIUM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN BASIN; YUNNAN-GUIZHOU PLATEAU;

AVES;

EID: 84989252484     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12862     Document Type: Article

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