Vulnerability of terrestrial island vertebrates to projected sea-level rise

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2058-2070

  Wetzel, Florian T ^a   Beissmann, Helmut ^a   Penn, Dustin J ^a   Jetz, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Endemic species; Island biogeography; Range contractions; Sea level rise; Threatened species; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VERTEBRATE; VULNERABILITY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MAMMAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILE; SEA; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GLOBAL WARMING; ISLANDS; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILES; VERTEBRATES;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

MYCTEROPERCA FUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878642141     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12185     Document Type: Article

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