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SUBMITTER: You J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5897335 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
You Jianling J Qin Xiaoping X Ranjitkar Sailesh S Lougheed Stephen C SC Wang Mingcheng M Zhou Wen W Ouyang Dongxin D Zhou Yin Y Xu Jianchu J Zhang Wenju W Wang Yuguo Y Yang Ji J Song Zhiping Z
Scientific reports 20180412 1
Climate change profoundly influences species distributions. These effects are evident in poleward latitudinal range shifts for many taxa, and upward altitudinal range shifts for alpine species, that resulted from increased annual global temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ca. 22,000 BP). For the latter, the ultimate consequence of upward shifts may be extinction as species in the highest alpine ecosystems can migrate no further, a phenomenon often characterized as "nowhere to go". ...[more]