Threatened and Endangered Subspecies with Vulnerable Ecological Traits Also Have High Susceptibility to Sea Level Rise and Habitat Fragmentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Benscoter, Allison M ^a   Reece, Joshua S ^b   Noss, Reed F ^c   Brandt, Laura A ^d   Mazzotti, Frank J ^a   Romañach, Stephanie S ^e   Watling, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NONHUMAN; SEA LEVEL; SEASHORE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EID: 84881102750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070647     Document Type: Article

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