Will Tropical Biodiversity Survive our Approach to Global Change?

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 561-562

  ter Steege, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Deforestation; Extinction; Land use; Tropical rain forests

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 77956486543     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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