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Global change ecology

the net loss of species from warm tropical lowlands when warming pushes species upslope and no hotter-adapted species exist to replace them.

In global change ecology, lowland biotic attrition refers to the net loss of species from warm tropical lowlands when warming pushes species upslope and no hotter-adapted species exist to replace them. This meaning comes from Colwell (2008) in Science.[1]

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References

Colwell, R. K., Brehm, G., Cardelús, C. L., Gilman, A. C., & Longino, J. T. (2008). Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics. Science, 322(5899), 258-261. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1162547

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