Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve-selection methods

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1618-1626

  Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b,c   Cabeza, Mar ^d   Thuiller, Wilfried ^e,f   Hannah, Lee ^g   Williams, Paul H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^g Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic modelling; Climate change; Complementarity; Conservation planning; Dispersal; Distribution models; Habitat suitability; Persistence; Probabilities of occurrence; Reserve clustering; Reserve selection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; NATURE RESERVE; SITE SELECTION;

EID: 4744370305     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00828.x     Document Type: Article

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