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The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography

  1. D. D. Ackerly1,*,
  2. S. R. Loarie2,
  3. W. K. Cornwell1,
  4. S. B. Weiss3,
  5. H. Hamilton4,
  6. R. Branciforte5,
  7. N. J. B. Kraft1,†

Article first published online: 23 MAR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00654.x

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Diversity and Distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Special Issue: Special Issue: Conservation biogeography - foundations, concepts and challenges

Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 476–487, May 2010

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Ackerly, D. D., Loarie, S. R., Cornwell, W. K., Weiss, S. B., Hamilton, H., Branciforte, R. and Kraft, N. J. B. (2010), The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions, 16: 476–487. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00654.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Integrative Biology and Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  2. 2

    Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

  3. 3

    Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

  4. 4

    Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA

  5. 5

    Bay Area Open Space Council, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

  1. †

    Present address: N. J. B. Kraft, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

* Correspondence: D. D. Ackerly, Department of Integrative Biology and Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: dackerly@berkeley.edu

  1. †

    Present address: N. J. B. Kraft, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

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