The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 106-112

  Keppel, Gunnar ^a   Mokany, Karel ^b   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^c   Phillips, Ben L ^d,e   Welbergen, Justin A ^e,f   Reside, April E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROCLIMATE; PRIORITIZATION; REFUGIUM; RESOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84926658658     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140055     Document Type: Article

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