Climate-Related Local Extinctions Are Already Widespread among Plant and Animal Species

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Wiens, John J ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; PLANT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 85000423072     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001104     Document Type: Article

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