Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 529-538

  Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b   Whittaker, Robert J ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^a   Erhard, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope modelling; British birds; Climate change; Consensus forecasting; Model variability; Probabilistic modelling; Species distributions; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION RISK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 24344458281     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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