Threats from climate change to terrestrial vertebrate hotspots in Europe.

Threats from climate change to terrestrial vertebrate hotspots in Europe.

We identified hotspots of terrestrial vertebrate species diversity in Europe and adjacent islands. Moreover, we assessed the extent to which by the end of the 21(st) century such hotspots will be exposed to average monthly temperature and precipitation patterns which can be regarded as extreme if co...

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Main Authors: Luigi Maiorano, Giovanni Amori, Massimo Capula, Alessandra Falcucci, Monica Masi, Alessandro Montemaggiori, Julien Pottier, Achilleas Psomas, Carlo Rondinini, Danilo Russo, Niklaus E Zimmermann, Luigi Boitani, Antoine Guisan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3774810?pdf=render

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