| forest cover reduces thermally suitable habitats and affects responses to a warmer climate predicted in a high-elevation lizard. | warmer climates have affected animal distribution ranges, but how they may interact with vegetation patterns to affect habitat use, an important consideration for future wildlife management, has received little attention. here, we use a biophysical model to investigate the potential thermal impact of vegetation pattern on the habitat quality of a high-elevation grassland lizard, takydromus hsuehshanensis, and to predict the thermal suitability of vegetation for this species in a future warmer cl ... | 2014 | 24446103 |