Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation site networks under climate change: Accounting for uncertainty

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1236-1248

  Bagchi, Robert ^a,g   Crosby, Mike ^b   Huntley, Brian ^a   Hole, David G ^c   Butchart, Stuart H M ^b   Collingham, Yvonne ^a   Kalra, Mohit ^d   Rajkumar, Jagadish ^d   Rahmani, Asad ^d   Pandey, Mitra ^e   Gurung, Hum ^e   Trai, Le Trong ^f   Van Quang, Nguyen ^f   Willis, Stephen ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Science and Knowledge Division   (United States)

^d BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

^e Bird Conservation Nepal   (Nepal)

^f BirdLife International in Indochina   (Viet Nam)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bird diversity; Eastern Himalaya; Environmental change; Important Bird Area; Mekong; Protected area; Site management adaptation; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; PROTECTED AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

HIMALAYAS;

AVES;

EID: 84874753855     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12123     Document Type: Article

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