Spatial heterogeneity in the effects of climate change on the population dynamics of a Mediterranean tortoise

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3075-3088

  Fernández Chacón, Albert ^a   Bertolero, Albert ^b   Amengual, Arnau ^c   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^a   Homar, Víctor ^c   Oro, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate projections; Demography; Extinction risk; Population matrices; Precipitation; Survival; Testudo hermanni

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION RISK; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO HERMANNI;

EID: 80052478712     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02469.x     Document Type: Article

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