How robust are global conservation priorities to climate change?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1277-1284

  Iwamura, Takuya ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^b   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Climate change; Climate envelopes; Climate stability index; International biodiversity conservation; Terrestrial ecoregions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOREGION; ENDEMISM; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; PRIORITIZATION;

EID: 84886727779     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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