Assisted Colonization: A Question of Focal Units and Recipient Localities

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-440

  Kreyling, Juergen ^a   Bittner, Torsten ^a   Jaeschke, Anja ^a   Jentsch, Anke ^b   Jonas Steinbauer, Manuel ^a   Thiel, Daniel ^a   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation strategy; Assisted migration; Core species; Ecosystem engineers; Managed relocation; Managed translocation; Species conservation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79954506857     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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