No evidence of the effect of extreme weather events on annual occurrence of four groups of ectothermic species.

Weather extremes may have strong effects on biodiversity, as known from theoretical and modelling studies. Predicted negative effects of increased weather variation are found only for a few species, mostly plants and birds in empirical studies. Therefore, we investigated correlations between weather...

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Main Authors: Agnieszka H Malinowska, Arco J van Strien, Jana Verboom, Michiel F WallisdeVries, Paul Opdam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4201516?pdf=render