Predicting extinction debt from community patterns

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2127-2136

  Kitzes, Justin ^a   Harte, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Conservation; Extinction debt; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Macroecology; Species abundance; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84939237096     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1594.1     Document Type: Article

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