Appropriateness of full-, partial- and no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1224-1234

  Bateman, Brooke L ^a,c   Murphy, Helen T ^b   Reside, April E ^a   Mokany, Karel ^b   Vanderwal, Jeremy ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Correlative models; Dispersal; Future scenarios; Movement ability; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; MODELING; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVENTORY;

EID: 84883654402     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12107     Document Type: Review

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