Predicted impact of climate change on threatened terrestrial vertebrates in central Spain highlights differences between endotherms and ectotherms

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-373

  Aragon P ^a   Rodriguez M A ^b   Olalla Tarraga M A ^b,c   Lobo, J M ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation biogeography; Ectothermic vertebrates; Iberian Peninsula; Predictive models; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVE DESIGN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VERTEBRATE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955129239     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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