The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 553-565

  Miles, Lera ^a   Grainger, Alan ^a   Phillips, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biodiversity mapping; Biodiversity scenarios; Biodiversity trends; Climate change modelling; Conservation planning; Spatial interpolation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; TROPICAL FOREST; ANGIOSPERM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MONTANE FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 8644290900     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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