Mapping environments at risk under different global climate change scenarios

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-60

  Saxon, Earl ^a   Baker, Barry ^b   Hargrove, William ^c   Hoffman, Forrest ^c   Zganjar, Chris ^a  

^a TNC CI Jt Initiative Climate C   (United States)

^b TNC CI Jt Initiative Climate C   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Climate change; Domains; Ecoregions; Mapping; Multivariate cluster analysis; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAPPING;

EID: 12944265106     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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