Coincident scales of forest feedback on climate and conservation in a diversity hot spot

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 757-765

  Webb, Thomas J ^a,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Hannah, Lee ^b   Woodward, F Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Conservation; Land use change; Vegetation climate feedbacks; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION; DATABASE; DEFORESTATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; VERTEBRATE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33646445374     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3364     Document Type: Article

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