Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands - Projections, implications and current knowledge

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 160-183

  Harter, David E V ^a   Irl, Severin D H ^a   Seo, Bumsuk ^a   Steinbauer, Manuel J ^a   Gillespie, Rosemary ^b   Triantis, Kostas A ^c,d   Fernández Palacios, José María ^e   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global warming; Island biogeography; Island endemics; Oceanic buffering; Sea level rise; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLORISTICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84926130591     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2015.01.003     Document Type: Review

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