The worrying future of the endemic flora of a tropical mountain range under climate change

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 218, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Bitencourt, Cássia ^a   Rapini, Alessandro ^a   Santos Damascena, Leilton ^a   De Marco Junior, Paulo ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asclepiadoideae; Campos rupestres; Conservation; Endemism; Extinction; Neotropics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOSPERM; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLORA; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; MACHINE LEARNING; MOUNTAIN REGION; TROPICAL REGION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON EMISSION; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; SAVANNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; CHAPADA DIAMANTINA; SERRA DO ESPINHACO;

ASCLEPIADOIDEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84962266317     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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