Climate change risks and conservation implications for a threatened small-range mammal species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Morueta Holme, Naia ^a   Flöjgaard, Camilla ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GALEMYS PYRENAICUS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SUMMER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MAMMALS; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK;

EID: 77956398618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010360     Document Type: Article

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