Accommodating climate change contingencies in conservation strategy

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 135-142

  Gillson, Lindsey ^a   Dawson, Terence P ^b   Jack, Sam ^a   McGeoch, Melodie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Adaptive management; Axes of concern; Climate envelope models; Conservation capacity; Evolutionary potential; Landscape attributes; Mechanistic models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874229246     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.008     Document Type: Review

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