Using plant distributions to predict the current and future range of a rare lizard

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1125-1137

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Science Monitoring and Knowledge   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate niche; Dispersal; Habitat suitability; Novel environments; Range shifts; Realized niche; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOINDICATOR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIZARD; NICHE; POPULATION MODELING; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

SQUAMATA; TILIQUA ADELAIDENSIS;

EID: 84881612744     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12050     Document Type: Article

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