Impacts of climate change on Swiss biodiversity: An indicator taxa approach

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 866-875

  Pearman, Peter B ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^b   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Indicator; IPCC; Landscape; Species distribution models; Surrogate species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NICHE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

SWITZERLAND;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79451471847     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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