The view from the cape: Extinction risk, protected areas, and climate change

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-242

  Hannah, Lee ^a   Midgley, Guy ^b,c   Hughes, Greg ^c   Bomhard, Bastian ^c  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^b CI ^*

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Extinction risk; Modeling; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 15244355669     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0231:TVFTCE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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