Global priority conservation areas in the face of 21st century climate change.

In an era when global biodiversity is increasingly impacted by rapidly changing climate, efforts to conserve global biodiversity may be compromised if we do not consider the uneven distribution of climate-induced threats. Here, via a novel application of an aggregate Regional Climate Change Index (R...

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Main Authors: Junsheng Li, Xin Lin, Anping Chen, Townsend Peterson, Keping Ma, Monika Bertzky, Philippe Ciais, Valerie Kapos, Changhui Peng, Benjamin Poulter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3554607?pdf=render