Forecasting range expansion into ecological traps: Climate-mediated shifts in sea turtle nesting beaches and human development

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3082-3092

  Pike, David A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal; Human density; Kemp's ridley turtle; Last glacial maximum; Lepidochelys kempii; Marine turtle; Nesting habitat; Population sink; Range shift

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORECASTING METHOD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NESTING; RANGE EXPANSION; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TAMAULIPAS;

CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; TESTUDINES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN DENSITY; KEMP'S RIDLEY TURTLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; MARINE TURTLE; NESTING; NESTING HABITAT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SINK; RANGE SHIFT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; HUMAN DENSITY; KEMP'S RIDLEY TURTLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; MARINE TURTLE; NESTING HABITAT; POPULATION SINK; RANGE SHIFT;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; TURTLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883551423     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12282     Document Type: Article

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