Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities : palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers

Auteurs :
MACDONALD, G.M.
BENNETT, K.D.
JACKSON, S.T.
PARDUCCI, L.
SMITH, F.A.
SMOL, J.P.
WILLIS, K.J.

Description :
Much of the recent progress in the application of palaeobiogeography to issues of climate change and its impacts can be attributed to developments along a number of still advancing methodological frontiers. These include increasingly finely resolved chronological resolution, more refined atmosphere-biosphere modelling, new biological and chemical techniques in reconstructing past species distributions and past climates, the development of large and readily accessible geo-referenced databases of biogeographical and climatic information, and new approaches in fossil morphological analysis and new molecular DNA techniques.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Progress in physical geography, issn : 0309-1333, 2008, vol. 32, n°. 2, p. 139-172, nombre de pages : 34, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 7 p.

Date :
2008

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Sage Publications