The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1472-1480

  Laurance, William F ^a   Dell, Bernard ^b   Turton, Stephen M ^a   Lawes, Michael J ^c   Hutley, Lindsay B ^c   McCallum, Hamish ^d   Dale, Patricia ^d   Bird, Michael ^a   Hardy, Giles ^b   Prideaux, Gavin ^e   Gawne, Ben ^f   McMahon, Clive R ^c   Yu, Richard ^e   Hero, Jean Marc ^d   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a   Krockenberger, Andrew ^a   Douglas, Michael ^c   Silvester, Ewen ^g   Mahony, Michael ^h   Vella, Karen ^d   Saikia, Udoy ^e   Wahren, Carl Henrik ^g   Xu, Zhihong ^d   Smith, Bradley ^a   Cocklin, Chris ^a   more..

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^g LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catastrophes; Climatic change; Ecological resilience; Ecological thresholds; Exotic pests and pathogens; Feral animals; Fire regimes; Global warming; Habitat fragmentation; Invasive species; Salinization; Sea level rise; Species extinctions

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION RISK; FERAL ORGANISM; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANGROVE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PATHOGEN; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SALINIZATION; SALTMARSH; SAVANNA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THRESHOLD; VULNERABILITY; WETLAND; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; MAMMALIA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79956207058     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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