Predicting Plant Diversity Patterns in Madagascar: Understanding the Effects of Climate and Land Cover Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12-015-1571
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1371/journal.pone.0122721
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- PLOS ONE
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- First page
- e0122721
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper investigated the synergistic roles of climate and land-use change in driving regional plant diversity patterns in global biodiversity hotspots. This line of enquiry is significant because it highlighted an often-overlooked caveat of predictions of future diversity patterns in tropical regions: climate-only models mask the absence of dispersal pathways and safe-sites in the tropical landscapes, without which plants will be unable to adapt to changing environmental conditions. The line of enquiry has led to one completed PhD dissertation and another on-going PhD project.
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- Non-English
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