The need to develop a coherent research approach for climate change vulnerability impact assessment and adaptation in high-biodiversity terrestrial ecosystems

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-373

  Mckellar, Richard ^a   Midgley, Guy F ^b   Yates, Colin J ^a   Abbott, Ian ^a   GIOIA, Paul ^a   Le Maitre, David ^c  

^a Bentley Delivery Centre   (Australia)

^b PO Box 12995 Mowbray 7705   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hot spot; Climate change; Science planning; South Africa; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77954159128     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02072.x     Document Type: Article

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