Reply to Rehm: Why rates of upslope shifts in tropical species vary is an open question.
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Rates of upslope shifts for tropical species depend on life history and dispersal mode.
The recent paper by Freeman and Class Freeman (1) adds to a growing body of literature documenting the upslope distributional shifts of tropical montane species in response to climate change. Armed with just a handful of studies from the tropics, the authors compare upslope shift rates between tropical and nontropical species and conclude that tropical species are, on average, shifting their di...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 111 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014