Climate-induced change of environmentally defined floristic domains: A conservation based vulnerability framework

Applied Geography

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-42

  Jewitt, Debbie ^a,b   Erasmus, Barend F N ^b   Goodman, Peter S ^a,b   O'Connor, Timothy G ^b,c   Hargrove, William W ^d   Maddalena, Damian M ^e   Witkowski, Ed T F ^b  

^a EZEMVELO KZN WILDLIFE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SAEON   (South Africa)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic stability; Conservation planning; Gradient analysis; Habitat intactness; Refugia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FLORISTICS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; REFUGIUM; VULNERABILITY;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84935017855     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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