Potential impacts of climatic change on southern African birds of fynbos and grassland biodiversity hotspots

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 769-781

  Huntley, Brian ^a   Barnard, Phoebe ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation strategy; Fynbos biome; Grassland biome; Red list species; Southern africa; Species' distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FYNBOS; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HOT SPOT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RED LIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

AVES;

EID: 84863582043     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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