Using changes in agricultural utility to quantify future climate-induced risk to conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 427-437

  Estes, Lyndon D ^a,b   Paroz, Lydie Line ^c   Bradley, Bethany A ^d   Green, Jonathan M H ^a   Hole, David G ^e   Holness, Stephen ^f   Ziv, Guy ^g   Oppenheimer, Michael G ^a,h   Wilcove, David S ^a,h  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e Conservation International ^*  (United States)

^f NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural utility; rea de conservaci n; Cambio clim tico; Climate change; Conservation area; Costo de oportunidad; Crop model; Modelo de cultivo; Opportunity cost; South Africa; Sud frica; Triticum aestivum; Utilidad agricultural; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FUTURE PROSPECT; MAIZE; PROTECTED AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHEAT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; SOUTH AFRICA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84896313993     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12205     Document Type: Article

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