Climate change and nature reserves: Examining the potential impacts, with examples from Great Britain

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-135

  Dockerty, Trudie ^a   Lovett, Andrew ^a   Watkinson, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate change trend analysis; Climate space modelling; Nature reserves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; NATURE RESERVE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0042200580     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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