Potential impacts of future land use and climate change on the Red List status of the Proteaceae in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1452-1468

  Bomhard, Bastian ^a,b,e   Richardson, David M ^b,c   Donaldson, John S ^a   Hughes, Greg O ^a   Midgley, Guy F ^a,d   Raimondo, Domitilla C ^a   Rebelo, Anthony G ^a   Rouget, Mathieu ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Cape Floristic Region; Climate change; Extinction risk; IUCN Red List; Land use change; Niche based models; Proteaceae; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION RISK; LAND USE CHANGE; RED LIST;

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

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 15244345565     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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