Assessing species vulnerability to climate and land use change: The case of the Swiss breeding birds

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 708-719

  Maggini, Ramona ^a,b   Lehmann, Anthony ^b   Zbinden, Niklaus ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Bolliger, Janine ^c   Schröder, Boris ^d,e   Foppen, Ruud ^f   Schmid, Hans ^a   Beniston, Martin ^b   Jenni, Lukas ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^f European Bird Census Council   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding birds; Climate and land use change; Conservation priorities; Early warning system; Switzerland; Vulnerability index

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; RED LIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84899584728     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12207     Document Type: Article

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