Impacts of past habitat loss and future climate change on the range dynamics of South African Proteaceae

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-376

  Sarmento Cabral, Juliano ^a,b   Jeltsch, Florian ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c   Higgins, Steven ^d   Midgley, Guy F ^e,f   Rebelo, Anthony G ^e   Rouget, Mathieu ^e   Schurr, Frank M ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity refugia; CFR Proteaceae; Climate change; Demographic properties; Habitat loss; Local abundances; Process based range models; Range filling; Range size; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM;

SOUTH AFRICA;

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 84875076653     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12011     Document Type: Article

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