Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

Wendy B. Foden; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Simon N. Stuart; Jean-Christophe Vié; H. Resit Akçakaya; Ariadne Angulo; Lyndon M. DeVantier; Alexander Gutsche; Emre Turak; Long Cao; Simon D. Donner; Vineet Katariya; Rodolphe Bernard; Robert A. Holland; Adrian F. Hughes; Susannah E. O’Hanlon; Stephen T. Garnett; Çagan H. Şekercioğlu; Georgina M. Mace

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065427

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Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

Wendy B. Foden ,

* E-mail: fodenw@gmail.com

Affiliations Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Stuart H. M. Butchart,

Affiliation Science, BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Simon N. Stuart,

Affiliations Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Jean-Christophe Vié,

Affiliation Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland
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H. Resit Akçakaya,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
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Ariadne Angulo,

Affiliation Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland
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Lyndon M. DeVantier,

Affiliation Noosaville, Queensland, Australia
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Alexander Gutsche,

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany
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Emre Turak,

Affiliations Cormec, Cergy, France, Catchment to Reef Research Group, Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Long Cao,

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, ZheJiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Simon D. Donner,

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Vineet Katariya,

Affiliation Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Rodolphe Bernard,

Affiliation Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Robert A. Holland,

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Adrian F. Hughes,

Affiliation Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Susannah E. O’Hanlon,

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Stephen T. Garnett,

Affiliation Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Çagan H. Şekercioğlu,

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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Georgina M. Mace

Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

Wendy B. Foden,
Stuart H. M. Butchart,
Simon N. Stuart,
Jean-Christophe Vié,
H. Resit Akçakaya,
Ariadne Angulo,
Lyndon M. DeVantier,
Alexander Gutsche,
Emre Turak,
Long Cao

Published: June 12, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065427

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