Climate-induced resource bottlenecks exacerbate species vulnerability: A review

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 731-743

  Maron, Martine ^a   Mcalpine, Clive A ^a   Watson, James E M ^a,b   Maxwell, Sean ^a   Barnard, Phoebe ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Climate vulnerability; Drought; Extreme events; Resource bottlenecks; Resource complementarity; Storms; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION PRESSURE; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84931957788     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12339     Document Type: Review

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