Species vulnerability to climate change: Impacts on spatial conservation priorities and species representation

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2335-2348

  Summers, David M ^a   Bryan, Brett A ^a   Crossman, Neville D ^a   Meyer, Wayne S ^b  

^a University of Adelaide ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Complementarity; Conservation planning; Exposure; Niche modelling; Sensitivity; Triage; Zonation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MODELING; NICHE; PLANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZONATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84861870318     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02700.x     Document Type: Article

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