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SUBMITTER: Freeman BG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6255149 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Freeman Benjamin G BG Scholer Micah N MN Ruiz-Gutierrez Viviana V Fitzpatrick John W JW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181029 47
Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species that live only near mountain summits, but empirical examples of populations that have disappeared are sparse. We show that recent warming constitutes an "escalator to extinction" for birds on a remote Peruvian mountain-high-elevation species have declined in both range size and abundance, and several previously common mountai ...[more]