Assessing the potential impacts of climate change and their conservation implications in Japan: A case study of conifers

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1728-1736

  Ogawa Onishi, Yuko ^a   Berry, Pam M ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Bioclimatic envelope model; Climate change; Japan; Refugia; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARCHIPELAGO; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INBREEDING; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MIGRATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; REFUGIUM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

JAPAN;

EID: 77954814991     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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