Prioritizing regions to conserve a specialist folivore: Considering probability of occurrence, food resources, and climate change

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 162-170

  Adams Hosking, Christine ^a   Mcalpine, Clive A ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Moss, Patrick T ^a   Grantham, Hedley S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation planning; Eucalyptus; Koala; MaxEnt; Priority; Zonation

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 84931832532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12125     Document Type: Article

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