From climate change predictions to actions - conserving vulnerable animal groups in hotspots at a regional scale

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3257-3270

  Carvalho, Sílvia B ^a,b,c   Brito, José C ^a   Crespo, Eduardo J ^b,d   Possingham, Hugh P ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Amphibians; Climate change; Ensemble modelling; Iberian Peninsula; Reptiles; Species distribution model; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AMPHIBIAN; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 78349292995     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02212.x     Document Type: Article

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