The relative importance of deforestation, precipitation change, and temperature sensitivity in determining the future distributions and diversity of Amazonian plant species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2636-2647

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b   Malhi, Yadvinder ^c   Zelazowski, Przemyslaw ^c   Silman, Miles R ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Extinction; Global warming; Natural history collections; Species distribution models; Species migrations

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBARIUM; PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84863608393     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02719.x     Document Type: Article

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