Climate change and plant dispersal along corridors in fragmented landscapes of Mesoamerica

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2917-2932

  Imbach, Pablo A ^a   Locatelli, Bruno ^b,c   Molina, Luis G ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Leadley, Paul W ^e  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d DIF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation policy; Biological corridors; Cellular automaton; Climate change adaptation; Connectivity; Holdridge; Landscape fragmentation; MAPSS; Migration; Species dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887010432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.672     Document Type: Article

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