Transboundary wildlife conservation in a changing climate: Adaptation of the bonn convention on migratory species and its daughter instruments to climate change

Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 258-300

  Trouwborst, Arie ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bonn convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals (CMS); Climate change; Migratory species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 84886393410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d4030258     Document Type: Article

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