Climate change and island floras

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511844270.019

18 - Climate change and island floras

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011

David Bramwell

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David Bramwell and

Juli Caujapé-Castells

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David Bramwell: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario ‘Viera y Clavijo’-Unidad Asociada CSIC
David Bramwell: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC
Juli Caujapé-Castells: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC

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Island plants and their habitats will be affected in the future not just by climate change but by a whole series of factors that make up the ongoing process of global change. While much of the focus in recent years has been on the impacts of climate change, these do not operate, now, nor will they in the future, in isolation but closely interact with human population changes and alterations in disturbance regimes. This inevitably leads to an impoverishment of biodiversity and loss or fragmentation of habitats.

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Information: The Biology of Island Floras , pp. 443 - 451

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844270.019 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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