Reframing the debate over assisted colonization

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 569-574

  Lawler, Joshua J ^a   Olden, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FACILITATION; LANDSCAPE; MIGRATION; RELOCATION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 80052738161     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/100106     Document Type: Review

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