Tools for integrating range change, extinction risk and climate change information into conservation management

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 956-964

  Fordham, Damien A ^a   Akçakaya, H Resit ^b   Araújo, Miguel B ^c,d,e   Keith, David A ^f,g   Brook, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION; NICHE; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84883300165     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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