Climate change threatens European conservation areas
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Climate change threatens European conservation areas. / Bastos Araujo, Miguel; Alagador, Diogo; Cabeza, Mar; Nogues, David Bravo; Thuiller, Wilfried.
In: Ecology Letters, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2011, p. 484-492.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Climate change threatens European conservation areas
AU - Bastos Araujo, Miguel
AU - Alagador, Diogo
AU - Cabeza, Mar
AU - Nogues, David Bravo
AU - Thuiller, Wilfried
N1 - © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Europe has the world's most extensive network of conservation areas. Conservation areas are selected without taking into account the effects of climate change. How effectively would such areas conserve biodiversity under climate change? We assess the effectiveness of protected areas and the Natura 2000 network in conserving a large proportion of European plant and terrestrial vertebrate species under climate change. We found that by 2080, 58 ± 2.6% of the species would lose suitable climate in protected areas, whereas losses affected 63 ± 2.1% of the species of European concern occurring in Natura 2000 areas. Protected areas are expected to retain climatic suitability for species better than unprotected areas (P
AB - Europe has the world's most extensive network of conservation areas. Conservation areas are selected without taking into account the effects of climate change. How effectively would such areas conserve biodiversity under climate change? We assess the effectiveness of protected areas and the Natura 2000 network in conserving a large proportion of European plant and terrestrial vertebrate species under climate change. We found that by 2080, 58 ± 2.6% of the species would lose suitable climate in protected areas, whereas losses affected 63 ± 2.1% of the species of European concern occurring in Natura 2000 areas. Protected areas are expected to retain climatic suitability for species better than unprotected areas (P
KW - Animals
KW - Climate Change
KW - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW - Europe
KW - Geography
KW - Models, Theoretical
KW - Plant Physiological Phenomena
U2 - 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01610.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01610.x
M3 - Letter
C2 - 21447141
VL - 14
SP - 484
EP - 492
JO - Ecology Letters
JF - Ecology Letters
SN - 1461-023X
IS - 5
ER -
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