Designing optimized multi-species monitoring networks to detect range shifts driven by climate change: A case study with bats in the North of Portugal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Amorim, Francisco ^a   Carvalho, Sílvia B ^a   Honrado, João ^a,b   Rebelo, Hugo ^a,c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PORTUGAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOLOGICAL PARAMETER MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTUGAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84900325719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087291     Document Type: Article

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