Introduction. Global change and biodiversity: Future challenges

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 553-555

  Barnard, Phoebe ^a,b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPARROW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 51549096803     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0374     Document Type: Editorial

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