The ice age ecologist: Testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 289-301

  Williams, John W ^a   Kharouba, Heather M ^b   Veloz, Sam ^a,c   Vellend, Mark ^b,d   Mclachlan, Jason ^e   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^f   He, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Niche models; No analogue climates; Palaeoecology; Pollen; Reserve selection; Species distribution models; Zonation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPERSION; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LAST DEGLACIATION; NEW SPECIES; NICHE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TESTING METHOD;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84873955627     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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