Modelling conservation management options for a southern range-margin population of Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria vulnerable to climate change

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 345-356

  Pearce Higgins, James W ^a,b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cranefly; European Golden Plover; Peatland; Pluvialis apricaria; Predation; Temperature; Tipulidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION RISK; INSECT; NEST PREDATION; PEATLAND; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WADER;

PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; TIPULIDAE;

EID: 79952722883     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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