Climate change meets habitat fragmentation: Linking landscape and biogeographical scale levels in research and conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-297

  Opdam, Paul ^a   Wascher, Dirk ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographical range; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat network; Metapopulation dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; RANGE SIZE; SYNERGISM;

EID: 1642263452     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.12.008     Document Type: Article

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