Tracking the effect of climate change on ecosystem functioning using protected areas: Africa as a case study

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-276

  Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a   Chauvenet, Aliénor L M ^a,b   Duffy, James P ^a   Cornforth, William A ^a   Meillere, Alizée ^a   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; National park; NDVI; Primary productivity; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN IMPACT; IN-SITU; NATIONAL PARKS; NDVI; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PROTECTED AREAS; SEASONALITY; STATIC SYSTEMS; VEGETATION GREENNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; NATIONAL PARK; NDVI; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; TRACKING;

AFRICA;

EID: 84858434334     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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