Trends and biases in global climate change literature

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-51

  Nabout, João Carlos ^a   Carvalho, Priscilla ^b   Prado, Marcio Uehara ^c   Borges, Pedro Paulino ^a   Machado, Karine Borges ^a   Haddad, Kátia Bittar ^b   Michelan, Thaísa Sala ^d   Cunha, Hélida Ferreira ^a   Soares, Thannya Nascimento ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Systema Naturae Consultoria Ambiental Ltda   (Brazil)

^c Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ GmbH   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate; Niche model; Scientometric; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875169439     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.2012.008     Document Type: Article

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