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- Title
Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain.
- Authors
Pounds, J. Alan; Fogden, Michael P.L.; Campbell, John H.
- Abstract
Presents research which studied the effects of global warming on species of anurans in highland forests at Monteverde, Costa Rica. Population crashes in species; Results of demographic changes; Patterns of dry-season mist frequency; Rise in the average altitude at the base of the orographic cloud bank; Consistency with the lifting-cloud-base hypothesis.
- Subjects
COSTA Rica; FROGS; GLOBAL warming; OROGRAPHIC clouds; SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL adaptation; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 398, Issue 6728, p611
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/19297