Habitat networks and food security: promoting species range shift under climate change depends on life history and the dynamics of land use choices

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 771-789

  Gimona, Alessandro ^a   Poggio, Laura ^a   Polhill, J Gary ^a   Castellazzi, Marie ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disequilibrium; Landscape adaptation; Landscape fragmentation; Social simulation; Species migration; Stepping stones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939934686     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0158-8     Document Type: Article

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