Climate change, species-area curves and the extinction crisis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1465, 2006, Pages 163-171

  Lewis, Owen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Extinction; Global warming; Prediction; Species area relationships

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; PREDICTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646576236     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1712     Document Type: Review

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