Potential impacts of climate change on the environmental services of humid tropical alpine regions

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-33

  Buytaert, Wouter ^a   Cuesta Camacho, Francisco ^b   Tobón, Conrado ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion CONDESAN ^*  (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Hydrology; Soil properties; Tropical alpine regions

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANDES; INDONESIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 78650053507     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00585.x     Document Type: Review

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