Energy sprawl or energy efficiency: Climate policy impacts on natural habitat for the United States of America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  McDonald, Robert I ^a   Fargione, Joseph ^a   Kiesecker, Joe ^a   Miller, William M ^b   Powell, Jimmie ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL;

AIR QUALITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT; HABITAT USE; LAND USE; POLICY; TEMPERATE GRASSLAND; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69249215350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006802     Document Type: Article

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