Using Scenario Planning to Evaluate the Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife Populations and Communities in the Florida Everglades

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 807-823

  Catano, Christopher P ^a   Romañach, Stephanie S ^b   Beerens, James M ^c   Pearlstine, Leonard G ^d   Brandt, Laura A ^e   Hart, Kristen M ^b   Mazzotti, Frank J ^f   Trexler, Joel C ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^e U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem restoration; Habitat suitability models; Hydrologic disturbance; Scenario planning; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; HABITAT SUITABILITY MODEL; HYDROLOGIC DISTURBANCE; SCENARIO PLANNING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORIDA; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84939961580     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0397-5     Document Type: Article

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