Abstract
The most recent and complex bioclimate models excel at describing species9 current distributions. Yet, it is unclear which models will best predict how climate change will affect their future distributions.
Keywords
BiodiversityAffect (linguistics)Climate changeGeographyEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental resource managementEcologyBiologyPsychology
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- 2006
- Type
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- Volume
- 313
- Issue
- 5792
- Pages
- 1396-1397
- Citations
- 611
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Miguel B. Araújo,
Carsten Rahbek
(2006).
How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?.
Science
, 313
(5792)
, 1396-1397.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1131758
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- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1131758