Conservation implications of omitting narrow-ranging taxa from species distribution models, now and in the future

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1307-1320

  Platts, Philip J ^a   Garcia, Raquel A ^b,c,d   Hof, Christian ^e   Foden, Wendy ^f,g   Hansen, Louis A ^b   Rahbek, Carsten ^b,h   Burgess, Neil D ^b,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g IUCN   (Switzerland)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^j WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

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Author keywords

Africa; Amphibians; Biodiversity; Climate change; Conservation priorities; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 84925358522     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12244     Document Type: Article

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