Refugia: Identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 393-404

  Keppel, Gunnar ^a   Van Niel, Kimberly P ^b   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^a   Yates, Colin J ^c   Byrne, Margaret ^c   Mucina, Ladislav ^a   Schut, Antonius G T ^a   Hopper, Stephen D ^b,d   Franklin, Steven E ^e  

^a Curtin Institute for Biodiversity and Climate   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Disturbance; Habitat; Microclimate; Palaeobiology; Phylogeography; Refuges; Refugia; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MICROCLIMATE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REFUGIUM;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 83155174796     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00686.x     Document Type: Review

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