Impacts of climate change on the distribution of species and communities in the Chilean Mediterranean ecosystem

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1245-1257

  Bambach, Nicolas ^a,b   Meza, Francisco J ^b   Gilabert, Horacio ^b   Miranda, Marcelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic models; Climate change; Ecological niche; MAXENT; Mediterranean ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891166728     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0425-7     Document Type: Article

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