Integrating Climate and Ocean Change Vulnerability into Conservation Planning

Coastal Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 651-672

  McLeod, Elizabeth ^a   Green, Alison ^a   Game, Edward ^a   Anthony, Kenneth ^b   Cinner, Joshua ^c   Heron, Scott F ^d   Kleypas, Joanie ^e   Lovelock, Catherine E ^f   Pandolfi, John M ^f   Pressey, Robert L ^c   Salm, Rodney ^a   Schill, Steve ^a   Woodroffe, Colin ^g  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NOAA Coral Reef Watch   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; conservation planning; increasing sea surface temperature; marine conservation; marine protected area (MPA); ocean acidification; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

COASTAL COMMUNITIES; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; OCEAN CHANGES; OCEAN WARMING; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; NATURE CONSERVATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84868291717     PISSN: 08920753     EISSN: 15210421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2012.728123     Document Type: Article

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