Climate change effects on animal and plant phylogenetic diversity in southern Africa

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1538-1549

  Pio, Dorothea V ^a,b   Engler, Robin ^a   Linder, H Peter ^c   Monadjem, Ara ^d   Cotterill, Fenton P D ^e   Taylor, Peter J ^f,g   Schoeman, M Corrie ^h   Price, Benjamin W ^i,j   Villet, Martin H ^j   Eick, Geeta ^k   Salamin, Nicolas ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SWAZILAND   (Swaziland)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f Durban Natural Science Museum   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^j RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Chiroptera; Cicadidae; Climate change; Extinction; Niche models; Phylogenetic diversity; Platypleura; Proteaceae; Restionaceae; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; INSECT; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; CICADA; CICADIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PLATYPLEURA; PROTEACEAE; RESTIONACEAE;

EID: 84898403712     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12524     Document Type: Article

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