Future habitat loss and extinctions driven by land-use change in biodiversity hotspots under four scenarios of climate-change mitigation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1122-1131

  Jantz, Samuel M ^a   Barker, Brian ^a   Brooks, Thomas M ^b   Chini, Louise P ^a   Huang, Qiongyu ^a   Moore, Rachel M ^a   Noel, Jacob ^a   Hurtt, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IUCN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Integrated assessment model; IPCC; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; INVERTEBRATES; PLANTS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84937073261     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12549     Document Type: Article

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