Climate change, climatic variation and extreme biological responses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1723, 2017, Pages

  Palmer, Georgina ^a   Platts, Philip J ^a   Brereton, Tom ^b   Chapman, Jason W ^c,d   Dytham, Calvin ^a   Fox, Richard ^b   Pearce Higgins, James W ^e,f   Roy, David B ^g   Hill, Jane K ^a   Thomas, Chris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aves; Butterfly; Climatic risk; Lepidoptera; Moth; Weather

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOTH; POPULATION SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENGLAND; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENGLAND; LEPIDOPTERA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85019155526     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0144     Document Type: Article

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