Assessing climate change impacts for vertebrate fauna across the West African protected area network using regionally appropriate climate projections
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School of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Mountjoy Site, Durham DH1 3LE, UK, Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK, UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntington Road, Cambridge, UK, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0NA, UK, IUCN Global Species Programme, 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, UK
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