Conservation planning under climate change: Toward accounting for uncertainty in predicted species distributions to increase confidence in conservation investments in space and time

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2020-2030

  Carvalho, Sílvia B ^a,b,c   Brito, José C ^a   Crespo, Eduardo G ^b,d   Watts, Matthew E ^c   Possingham, Hugh P ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conservation prioritization; Global warming; Iberian peninsula; Marxan; Return on investment; Scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79957650200     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.04.024     Document Type: Article

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