Losing your edge: Climate change and the conservation value of range-edge populations

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 4315-4326

  Rehm, Evan M ^a,b   Olivas, Paulo ^b   Stroud, James ^a,b   Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecotone; Habitat loss; Local adaptation; Marginal populations; Peripheral populations; Range contraction; Range expansion; Species migrations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942982870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1645     Document Type: Article

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