Expanding, shifting and shrinking The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 27; no. 11; pp. 1268 - 1276
• Main Authors: Freeman, Benjamin G., Lee-Yaw, Julie A., Sunday, Jennifer M., Hargreaves, Anna L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley 01.11.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: altitude; biocenosis; Climate change; data collection; Ecological effects; ectothermy; elevational gradient; endothermy; Global warming; META-ANALYSIS; mountains; mountaintop extinctions; Plants; prediction; range limits; range shifts; Rangefinding; Species; species distributions; temperature; Temperature effects; Threatened species; variance; vascular plants

Aim Species are responding to climate warming by shifting their distributions toward historically cooler regions, but the degree to which expansions at cool range limits are balanced by contractions at warm limits is unknown. We synthesized published data documenting shifts at species’ warm versus c...