Redesigning biodiversity conservation projects for climate change: Examples from the field

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-201

  Poiani, Karen A ^a   Goldman, Rebecca L ^a,b   Hobson, Jennifer ^c   Hoekstra, Jonathan M ^a   Nelson, Kara S ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate adaptation; Climate change; Climate impacts; Conservation planning; Conservation strategies; Global warming; Resilience; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HABITAT QUALITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 78650419330     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9954-2     Document Type: Article

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