Criteria for assessing climate change impacts on ecosystems

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-72

  Loehle, Craig ^a  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate envelope model; Extinction risk; General circulation model; Impact assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84880676110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7     Document Type: Article

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