Land use compounds habitat losses under projected climate change in a threatened California ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Riordan, Erin Coulter ^a   Rundel, Philip W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HABITAT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SCRUB; SHRUB; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84898922321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086487     Document Type: Article

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