The data void in modeling current and future distributions of tropical species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 626-630

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b,c   Silman, Miles R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic niche envelope; Climate change; Conservation biogeography; Habitat modeling; Natural history collections; Species migrations; Tropical plants

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATABASE; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 78649795162     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02239.x     Document Type: Article

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