Open AccessPeruvian Mountain Birds Take an “Escalator to Extinction”
Author(s) -
Jenessa Duncombe
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2018eo108905
Subject(s) - extinction (optical mineralogy) , geography , physical geography , ecology , environmental science , geology , biology , paleontology
As the climate warms, tropical birds living in the mountains are retreating to higher elevations to avoid the heat. What happens when they run out of mountain slope to escape to?