Biodiversity scenarios neglect future land-use changes

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2505-2515

  Titeux, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Henle, Klaus ^d   Mihoub, Jean Baptiste ^d,e   Regos, Adrián ^a,c   Geijzendorffer, Ilse R ^f   Cramer, Wolfgang ^f   Verburg, Peter H ^g   Brotons, Lluís ^a,c,h  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c CREAF   (Spain)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

biodiversity projections; climate change; ecological forecasting; land system science; land cover change; predictive models; species distribution models; storylines

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HABITAT LOSS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85027924470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13272     Document Type: Article

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