Conservation in the context of climate change: practical guidelines for land protection at local scales.

Climate change will affect the composition of plant and animal communities in many habitats and geographic settings. This presents a dilemma for conservation programs--will the portfolio of protected lands we now have achieve a goal of conserving biodiversity in the future when the ecological commun...

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Main Authors: Kevin Ruddock, Peter V August, Christopher Damon, Charles Labash, Pamela Rubinoff, Donald Robadue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3835331?pdf=render