Elevational Range Shifts Driven by Climate Change in Tropical Mountains: Assessment and Conservation Opportunities

<p>Global climate change can cause shifts in species distributions, and increases in some of their competitors, predators, and diseases that might even cause their extinction. Species may respond to a warming climate by moving to higher latitudes or elevations. Shifts in geographic ranges are...

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Main Author: Foreo Medina, German Andres
Other Authors: Pimm, Stuart L
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5598