Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 445-451

  Midgley, Guy F ^a,b   Hannah, Lee ^b   Millar, Dinah ^a   Rutherford, Mike C ^a   Powrie, Les W ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic model; Climate change; Extinction risk; Fynbos; Global change; HadCM2; Proteaceae; Range displacement; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FYNBOS; GLOBAL CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOME; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; TOLERANCE; VEGETATION;

SOUTH AFRICA; AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 0036881087     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2002.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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