Plant extinction risk under climate change: Are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1357-1371

  Fordham, Damien A ^a   Resit Akcakaya H ^b   Araújo, Miguel B ^c,d   Elith, Jane ^e   Keith, David A ^f,g   Pearson, Richard ^h   Auld, Tony D ^f   Mellin, Camille ^a,i   Morgan, John W ^j   Regan, Tracey J ^e   Tozer, Mark ^f   Watts, Michael J ^a   White, Matthew ^k   Wintle, Brendan A ^e   Yates, Colin ^l   Brook, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^j LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^l DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Abundance; Bioclimate envelope; Connectivity; Coupled niche population model; Dispersal; Habitat suitability; Mechanistic model; Metapopulation; Population viability analysis; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84858443510     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02614.x     Document Type: Article

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