Facilitating adaptation of biodiversity to climate change: A conceptual framework applied to the world's largest Mediterranean-climate woodland

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 227-248

  Prober, Suzanne M ^a   Thiele, Kevin R ^b   Rundel, Philip W ^c   Yates, Colin J ^b   Berry, Sandra L ^d   Byrne, Margaret ^b   Christidis, Les ^e   Gosper, Carl R ^a,b   Grierson, Pauline F ^f   Lemson, Kristina ^g   Lyons, Tom ^h   Macfarlane, Craig ^a   O'Connor, Michael H ^a   Scott, John K ^a   Standish, Rachel J ^f   Stock, William D ^g   van Etten, Eddie J B ^g   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ⁱ   Watson, Alexander ^j  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Crop Variety Testing Group   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j The Wilderness Society   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COMPONENT SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOLOGICAL SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; FIRE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED APPROACH;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FIRE PROTECTION; GENES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REFUGIUM; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 83055173078     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0092-y     Document Type: Article

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