Challenges and opportunities in implementing managed relocation for conservation of freshwater species;Retos y Oportunidades para la Implementación de la Reubicación Controlada para la Conservación de Especies Dulceacuícolas

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-47

  Olden, Julian D ^a   Kennard, Mark J ^b   Lawler, Joshua J ^a   Poff, N Leroy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted colonization; Assisted migration; Assisted translocation; Climate change; Endangered species; Landscape connectivity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPTILE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHES; FRESH WATER; REPTILES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78751661052     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01557.x     Document Type: Article

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