Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

Austral Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 887-897

  Reside, April E ^a   Welbergen, Justin A ^a,b   Phillips, Ben L ^a,c   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^d   Keppel, Gunnar ^e   Ferrier, Simon ^f   Williams, Stephen E ^a   Vanderwal, Jeremy ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Refugia; Synergies; Terrestrial biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909579684     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12146     Document Type: Review

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