Future climate change driven sea-level rise: Secondary consequences from human displacement for island biodiversity

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2707-2719

  Wetzel, Florian T ^a   Kissling, W Daniel ^b   Beissmann, Helmut ^a   Penn, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conservation priorities; Extinction risk; Global change; Human migration; Human settlements; Indo Malaysia; Insular biodiversity; Range contractions; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MIGRATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

MALAYSIA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864583760     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02736.x     Document Type: Article

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