The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Priorities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Davis, Aaron P ^a   Gole, Tadesse Woldemariam ^b   Baena, Susana ^a   Moat, Justin ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b Environment and Coffee Forest Forum   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COFFEE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUTUROLOGY; GENETIC RESOURCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD PLANT;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COFFEA; COFFEE; ECOSYSTEM; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SUDAN;

COFFEA ARABICA;

EID: 84868689279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047981     Document Type: Article

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