Biodiversity Funds and Conservation Needs in the EU Under Climate Change

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 390-400

  Lung, Tobias ^a,b   Meller, Laura ^c,d   van Teeffelen, Astrid J A ^c,e   Thuiller, Wilfried ^d,f   Cabeza, Mar ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation funding; Birds; Climate change adaptation; Ensemble forecasting; Europe; Retention area; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906683823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12096     Document Type: Article

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