Climate change hastens the conservation urgency of an endangered ungulate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Junhua ^a,b   Jiang, Zhigang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; PROCAPRA PRZEWALSKII; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNGULATE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

GAZELLA; PROCAPRA PRZEWALSKII; UNGULATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

EID: 79961036614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022873     Document Type: Article

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