Vulnerability of moorland plant communities to environmental change: Consequences of realistic species loss on functional diversity

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 299-308

  Sasaki, Takehiro ^a,e   Katabuchi, Masatoshi ^b   Kamiyama, Chiho ^c   Shimazaki, Masaya ^a   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^a   Hikosaka, Kouki ^a,d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Conservation prioritization; Functional redundancy; GIS; Global warming; Mapping; Nestedness; Non random extinction; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CARRYING CAPACITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTINCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING METHOD; NESTEDNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84896387892     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12192     Document Type: Article

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