Assessing the vulnerability of an assemblage of subtropical rainforest vertebrate species to climate change in south-east Queensland

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 465-475

  Hagger, Valerie ^a,b   Fisher, Diana ^a   Schmidt, Susanne ^a   Blomberg, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Extinction risk; Subtropical rainforest; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; REGENERATION; REPTILE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84877921310     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02437.x     Document Type: Article

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