Climate change impacts on the terrestrial biodiversity and carbon stocks of Oceania

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 230-240

  Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^a   Keppel, Gunnar ^a,b   Sander, Juliane ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; endemic species; Deforestation and habitat destruction and degradation; Pacific Island Nations; REDD; Reforestation; Refugia; Resilience; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOME; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; OCEANIA ECOZONE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAKEHOLDER; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 83155188879     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/pc110220     Document Type: Article

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