Demographic consequences of climate change and land cover help explain a history of extirpations and range contraction in a declining snake species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2087-2099

  Pomara, Lars Y ^a   Ledee, Olivia E ^b   Martin, Karl J ^c   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demographic modeling; Distribution modeling; Drought; Eastern Massasauga; Flooding; Habitat loss; Macrorefugia; Range contraction; Sistrurus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DROUGHT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM; SNAKE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; UNITED STATES; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 84901824380     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12510     Document Type: Article

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