Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts

Daniel F. Doak () and William F. Morris
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Daniel F. Doak: University of Wyoming
William F. Morris: Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

Nature, 2010, vol. 467, issue 7318, 959-962

Abstract: Chasing the climate Climate change is expected to shift the geographical ranges of many animal and plant species, in terms of both the latitude and altitude of their habitat. Many reported range shifts have been idiosyncratic, however, even among taxonomically similar species, with the low latitude or low altitude limit of a species' range not necessarily moving as fast as the high edge. Using demographic data on the tundra plants moss campion and alpine bistort, Daniel Doak and William Morris show that changed demographic rates at the lower edge are compensating for the warming climate, but that this effect will not last and a tipping point may be reached as temperatures get warmer.

Date: 2010
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