Governments and conservation organizations have dedicated extensive resources to protect biodiversity, but their conservation strategies have largely been developed under an assumption of a static climate. These strategies may fail with changing climates, especially when combined with existing an...
Warren RF
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Price JT
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Vanderwal J
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Jarvis, Andy
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Shoo L
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Goswami S
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[Making scientific data available to adaptation practitioners: the Wallace Initiative and ClimaScope]
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Making scientific data available to adaptation practitioners: the Wallace Initiative and ClimaScope
South America is blessed with both world-leading levels of biodiversity, and world-record breaking levels of habitat conversion in some areas. Under this highly dynamic context, sound conservation planning is needed and one component of effectively prioritising conservation interventions is throu...
Jarvis, Andy
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Touval, Jerome L.
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Castro, M.
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Sotomayor L
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Hyman, Glenn
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[Assessment of threats to ecosystems in South America]
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Assessment of threats to ecosystems in South America
In light of the growing concern over the potentially devastating impacts on biodiversity and food security of climate change and the massively growing world population, taking action to conserve crop wild relatives (CWR), is no longer an option it is a priority. Crop wild relatives are species ...
Maxted, Nigel
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Kell, S.
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Toledo, A.
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Dulloo, Ehsan
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Heywood, V.
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Hodgkin, T.
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Hunter D
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Guarino, Luigi
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Jarvis, Andy
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Ford-Lloyd, B.V.
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[A global approach to crop wild relative conservation: securing the gene pool for food and agriculture]
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A global approach to crop wild relative conservation: securing the gene pool for food and agriculture