Egypt's Protected Area network under future climate change

Biological Conservation

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 490-500

  Leach, Katie ^a   Zalat, Samy ^b,c   Gilbert, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Species distributions; Zonation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; WARMING;

EGYPT;

MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84873101158     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.11.025     Document Type: Article

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