Vulnerability of biodiversity hotspots to global change

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 23; no. 12; pp. 1376 - 1386
• Main Authors: Bellard, Céline, Leclerc, Camille, Leroy, Boris, Bakkenes, Michel, Veloz, Samuel, Thuiller, Wilfried, Courchamp, Franck
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Science 01.12.2014; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Biodiversity; Biodiversity and Ecology; Biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity hotspots; Biological and medical sciences; biological invasions; climate; Climate change; Climatic zones; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; conservation; Conservation biology; Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife; Earth, ocean, space; Ecological invasion; Ecoregions; Endemic species; Environmental Sciences; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Habitat conservation; habitats; introduced species; Invasive species; islands; land-use change; Meteorology; monitoring; Nonnative species; Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking; pastures; spatial prioritization; Synecology; Biological invasion; Biodiversity hotspots; spatial prioritization; Hot spot; Conservation; Biogeography; land-use change; Ecology; Vulnerability; Biodiversity; biological invasions; Land use; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; Global change; Planetary scale; Environmental monitoring; Environmental protection; conservation; future; area relationships; biological invasion; species distribution models; responses; impacts; climate-change; distributions; communities

AIM: Global changes are predicted to have severe consequences for biodiversity; 34 biodiversity hotspots have become international priorities for conservation, with important efforts allocated to their preservation, but the potential effects of global changes on hotspots have so far received relativ...