Managing for change: Wetland transitions under sea-level rise and outcomes for threatened species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1225-1233

  Traill, Lochran W ^a   Perhans, Karin ^a   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Prohaska, Ana ^a   Mcfallan, Steve ^b   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accretion; Australia; Demographic models; RAMAS; Sea level rise; SLAMM; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COASTAL WETLAND; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ELEVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LIDAR; MANGROVE; METAPOPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERSISTENCE; RODENT; SEA LEVEL; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

FELIS CATUS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; RODENTIA; XEROMYS MYOIDES;

EID: 80054099120     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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