Climate change modifies risk of global biodiversity loss due to land-cover change

Biological Conservation

Volumn 187, Issue , 2015, Pages 103-111

  Mantyka Pringle, Chrystal S ^a,b,c   Visconti, Piero ^d,e   Di Marco, Moreno ^e   Martin, Tara G ^a,b   Rondinini, Carlo ^e   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Climate change; Conservation planning; Habitat loss; Interactions; Prioritization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HOT SPOT; LAND COVER; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; PRIORITIZATION; RISK FACTOR;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84929658157     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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