Horizontal cliffs: Mountaintop mining and climate change

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3731-3734

  Beggs, Paul John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Local extinction; Mountaintop removal mining; Range contraction; Species; Upward shift

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MINING; RANGE SIZE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84869210767     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0387-y     Document Type: Article

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