Managed relocation as an adaptation strategy for mitigating climate change threats to the persistence of an endangered lizard

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2743-2755

  Fordham, Damien A ^a   Watts, Michael J ^a   Delean, Steven ^a   Brook, Brook W ^a   Heard, Lee M B ^a,b   Bull, C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Science Resource Centre   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted colonization; Assisted migration; Bioclimate envelope; Coupled niche population model; Mechanistic model; Metapopulation; Population viability analysis; Reptile; Species distribution model; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT USE; LIZARD; METAPOPULATION; NICHE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TILIQUA ADELAIDENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864582246     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02742.x     Document Type: Article

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