Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 137-152

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Albert, Cécile ^a   Araújo, Miguel B ^b   Berry, Pam M ^c   Cabeza, Mar ^d   Guisan, Antoine ^e   Hickler, Thomas ^f   Midgley, Guy F ^g   Paterson, James ^c   Schurr, Frank M ^h   Sykes, Martin T ^f   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

ⁱ SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Global change; Habitat models; Process based models; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOEROSION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; MIGRATION; PHENOLOGY;

EID: 38849199261     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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