Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from species distribution models and trait-based approaches

Biological Conservation

Volumn 190, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-178

  Willis, S G ^a   Foden, W ^b   Baker, D J ^a   Belle, E ^c   Burgess, N D ^c,d   Carr, J A ^e   Doswald, N ^c   Garcia, R A ^f,g,h   Hartley, A ⁱ   Hof, C ^j   Newbold, T ^c   Rahbek, C ^h   Smith, R J ^k   Visconti, P ^l   Young, B E ^m   Butchart, S H M ⁿ  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e IUCN Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^f MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^l MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^m NatureServe   (Costa Rica)

ⁿ BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Conservation planning for climate change; Model integration; Species climate vulnerability traits; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84935027477     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.05.001     Document Type: Article

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