Climate change and modelled biome representation in Canada's national park system: Implications for system planning and park mandates

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 475-484

  Scott, Daniel ^a   Malcolm, Jay R ^b   Lemieux, Christopher ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biome; Canada; Climate change; Conservation system planning; National parks; Protected area management

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; NATIONAL PARK; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; MODELING; PROTECTED AREA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 0036881643     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2002.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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