Climate change and Australia: Key vulnerable regions

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 189-195

  Hughes, Lesley ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Australian biodiversity; Ecosystems; Great Barrier Reef; South west Western Australia; Vulnerability; Wet tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952106086     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0158-9     Document Type: Article

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