Habitat restoration will help some functional plant types persist under climate change in fragmented landscapes

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2057-2070

  Renton, Michael ^a,b,c,d   Shackelford, Nancy ^a   Standish, Rachel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Australia Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Corridors; Dynamic model; Functional traits; Individual based; Intervention ecology; Spatially explicit; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84860672161     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02677.x     Document Type: Article

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