Predicting the future effectiveness of protected areas for bird conservation in Mediterranean ecosystems under climate change and novel fire regime scenarios

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 83-96

  Regos, Adrián ^a,b   D'Amen, Manuela ^c   Titeux, Nicolas ^a,b   Herrando, Sergi ^d   Guisan, Antoine ^c   Brotons, Lluís ^a,b,d,e  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Museu de Zoologia   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity management; Bird conservation; Hierarchical approach; Land abandonment; Land cover change; MEDFIRE model; Multiscale modelling; Species distribution models; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EUROPEAN UNION; FIRE; FUTURE PROSPECT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND COVER; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTECTED AREA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 84955188086     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12375     Document Type: Article

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