Using climatic suitability thresholds to identify past, present and future population viability

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages 551-556

  Almpanidou, Vasiliki ^a   Schofield, Gail ^a,b   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^a   Türkozan, Oguz ^c   Hays, Graeme C ^b   Mazaris, Antonios D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adaptation to climate change; Bioclimate envelope; Climatic based indicator; Evolutionary stable strategy; Resilience; Species persistence

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; BIOCLIMATE; EVOLUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGIES; RESILIENCE; SPECIES PERSISTENCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HABITAT USE; NICHE; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; SEASONALITY; TURTLE;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE;

EID: 84979943853     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.07.038     Document Type: Article

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