The projected impact of climate and land use change on plant diversity: Anexample from West Africa

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 96, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-54

  Heubes, Jonathan ^a,b   Schmidt, Marco ^a,b,c   Stuch, Benjamin ^d   García Márquez, Jaime R ^a,e   Wittig, Rüdiger ^a,b   Zizka, Georg ^a,b,c   Thiombiano, Adjima ^f   Sinsin, Brice ^g   Schaldach, Rüdiger ^d   Hahn, Karen ^a,b  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e Carbones del Cerrejón Limited   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Burkina Faso; Presence only data; Sahel; Savanna; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LATITUDE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIMULATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

BURKINA FASO; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84878126998     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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