Vulnerability of mires under climate change: Implications for nature conservation and climate change adaptation

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 655-669

  Essl, Franz ^a   Dullinger, Stefan ^b,c   Moser, Dietmar ^a,c   Rabitsch, Wolfgang ^a   Kleinbauer, Ingrid ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; BIOMOD; Carbon sequestration; Climate scenarios; Ecosystems; Habitat loss; Habitat models; Mitigation; Peatland

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; MIRE; MITIGATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84857030781     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0206-x     Document Type: Article

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