Sliding baselines and shuffling species: Implications of climate change for marine conservation

Marine Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 392-403

  Hobday, Alistair J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marine protected area; Range change; Regional marine planning

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PROTECTED AREA; REGIONAL PLANNING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79961029398     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2011.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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