Plant and animal range shifts and population changes
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Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
Disappearing frogs and toads. A reduction in dry-season mists due to warmer Pacific ocean temperatures has been linked to disappearances of 20 species of frogs and toads, upward shifts in the ranges of mountain birds, and declines in lizard population.
Reference: Pounds, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., and Campbell, J.H., 1999. Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain. Nature 398: 611-615.
