Move it or lose it? the ecological ethics of relocating species under climate change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1801-1804

  Minteer, Ben A ^a   Collins, James P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological policy; Ethics; Managed relocation; Species conservation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ETHICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVASIBILITY; POLICY STRATEGY; RELOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957725619     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0318.1     Document Type: Article

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