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DOI | 10.1002/fee.1764 |
Tropical mountain passes are out of reach - but not for arboreal species | |
Scheffers, Brett R.1; Williams, Stephen E.2 | |
2018-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
ISSN | 1540-9295 |
EISSN | 1540-9309 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 16期号:2页码:101-108 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Australia |
英文摘要 | According to a prevailing hypothesis, lowland tropical organisms are unlikely to successfully cross mountain passes because they have neither acclimated nor adapted to the colder temperatures found at higher elevations. However, this expectation assumes that changes in temperature are uniform across space and fails to account for the presence of diverse microclimates created by structurally complex ecosystems, such as rainforests. We collected and analyzed temperature data from Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian tropical mountain ecosystems to determine the degree of overlap between lowland and upland thermal regimes in three selected microenvironments. The thermal regimes of upland and lowland forest canopies overlapped to a greater extent than the thermal regimes of upland and lowland soils or ground-level sites. Tree-dwelling animals may therefore be able to bypass temperature constraints imposed by geography by virtue of where they live, which could lead to broader distributions and greater resilience to climatic change and variability as compared with ground-dwelling species. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000426503700021 |
WOS关键词 | RAIN-FOREST CANOPY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; RANGE SIZE ; BODY-SIZE ; GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE ; CLIMBING BEHAVIOR ; MICROHABITAT USE ; THERMOREGULATION ; PATTERNS ; MAMMALS |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Environmental Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/31517 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Florida, Dept Wildlife Ecol & Conservat, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; 2.James Cook Univ, Ctr Trop Biodivers & Climate Change, Coll Sci & Engn, Townsville, Qld, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Scheffers, Brett R.,Williams, Stephen E.. Tropical mountain passes are out of reach - but not for arboreal species[J]. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT,2018,16(2):101-108. |
APA | Scheffers, Brett R.,&Williams, Stephen E..(2018).Tropical mountain passes are out of reach - but not for arboreal species.FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT,16(2),101-108. |
MLA | Scheffers, Brett R.,et al."Tropical mountain passes are out of reach - but not for arboreal species".FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 16.2(2018):101-108. |
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