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Fig. 3 | BMC Ecology

Fig. 3

From: Heterogeneous distributional responses to climate warming: evidence from rodents along a subtropical elevational gradient

Fig. 3

Boxplots (median and first and third quartile values are shown, outliers are denoted by filled circles) illustrating the elevational shifts of upper range limit, lower range limit and abundance-weighted range centre for each of 11 rodent species (a Caryomys eva, b Eothenomys melanogaster, c Microtus oeconomus, d Apodemus chevrieri, e Apodemus draco, f Apodemus latronum, g Micromys minutus, h Niviventer andersoni, i Niviventer confucianus, j Niviventer fulvescens, k Rattus norvegicus) between 1986 and 2014–2015. Elevational range shift values (n = 100) were calculated for each range point of each species as the 100 paired differences in elevation between the modern and historical surveys, based on the 100 replicates of the initial datasets of two periods. Each boxplot was displayed against the zero reference line (i.e. no shift between periods, dotted line) and the significance of shift was examined using a Student’s t test (***P < 0.001; NS not significant)

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