A multi-model framework for simulating wildlife population response to land-use and climate change

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 77-91

  McRae, Brad H ^a   Schumaker, Nathan H ^b   McKane, Robert B ^b   Busing, Richard T ^c   Solomon, Allen M ^d   Burdick, Connie A ^b  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d US Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative future landscape; Climate change; Habitat change; Land use change; Population dynamics; Spatially explicit population model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VEGETATION;

ABIOTIC FACTORS; ALTERNATIVE FUTURE LANDSCAPE; ANIMAL POPULATIONS; BOTTOM-UP; CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COHERENT FRAMEWORKS; COMPLEX INTERACTIONS; CONIFER FORESTS; CONSERVATION ACTIONS; DYNAMIC FACTORS; DYNAMIC MODELING; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; FLEXIBLE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GREAT-ER; HABITAT CHANGE; HABITAT CHANGES; HABITAT MODELS; HABITAT PREFERENCES; HABITAT QUALITIES; HABITAT SUITABILITIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODELING APPROACHES; MULTI-MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POPULATION CHANGES; REGION OF INTERESTS; RELIABLE ASSESSMENTS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS; SIMULATING; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT POPULATION MODEL; TOP-DOWN; VEGETATION CHANGES; VEGETATION RESPONSES; WILDLIFE HABITATS; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION MODELING;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATES; DECISION MAKING; LAND USE; PLANTS; WILD LIFE;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 54249112711     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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