Prediction uncertainty of environmental change effects on temperate European biodiversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-244

  Dormann, Carsten F ^a   Schweiger, Oliver ^a   Arens, P ^b   Augenstein, I ^a   Aviron, St ^c,d   Bailey, Debra ^d   Baudry, J ^c   Billeter, R ^e   Bugter, R ^b   Bukacek R ^f   Burel, F ^g   Cerny, M ^h   Cock, Raphaël De ^c   Blust, Geert De ⁱ   DeFilippi, R ^d   Diekötter, Tim ^d   Dirksen, J ^b   Durka, W ^a   Edwards, P J ^e   Frenzel, M ^a   Hamersky, R ^f   Hendrickx, Frederik ⁱ   Herzog, F ^d   Klotz, St ^a   Koolstra, B ^b   Lausch, A ^a   Coeur, D Le ^g   Liira, J ^j   Maelfait, J P ⁱ   Opdam, P ^b   Roubalova, M ^h   Schermann Legionnet, Agnes ^g   Schermann, N ^c   Schmidt, T ^a   Smulders, M J M ^b   Speelmans, M ⁱ   Simova, P ^f   Verboom, J ^b   Wingerden, Walter Van ^b   Zobel, M ^j   more..

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Nature Conservation Authority   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^h Ustav pro vyzkum lesnich ekosystemu sro   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

more..

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Environmental change; Multimodel inference; Projection; Species richness; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INSECT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PLANT; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

APOIDEA; ARANEAE; AVES; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA;

EID: 38649108841     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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