Conservation of grassland butterflies in Finland under a changing climate

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-84

  Tainio, Anna ^a   Heikkinen, Risto K ^a   Heliölä, Janne ^a   Hunt, Alistair ^b   Watkiss, Paul ^c,d,e   Fronzek, Stefan ^a   Leikola, Niko ^a   Lötjönen, Sanna ^f   Mashkina, Olga ^a   Carter, Timothy R ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c Paul Watkiss Associates   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agri environmental scheme (AES); Bioclimatic envelope modelling; Cost effectiveness analysis; Ecological corridor; Species translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953237723     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0684-y     Document Type: Article

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