Combining community-level spatial modelling and expert knowledge to inform climate adaptation in temperate grassy eucalypt woodlands and related grasslands

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1627-1650

  Prober, Suzanne M ^a   Hilbert, D W ^a   Ferrier, S ^a   Dunlop, M ^a   Gobbett, D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Climate change; Community level modelling; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; Global warming; Savannah

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERT SYSTEM; FROG; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MAMMAL; REPTILE; SAVANNA; SHRUBLAND; SNAIL; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; AVES; CALLITRIS; CASUARINA; GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84861723908     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0268-4     Document Type: Article

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