Prioritizing conservation seed banking locations for imperiled hemlock species using multi-attribute frontier mapping

New Forests

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 301-316

  Hastings, John M ^a   Potter, Kevin M ^b   Koch, Frank H ^c   Megalos, Mark ^b   Jetton, Robert M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carolina hemlock; Climate change; Eastern hemlock; Gene conservation; Genetic diversity; Multi criteria evaluation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; FORESTRY; GENES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCES;

CAROLINA HEMLOCKS; CONSERVATION ACTIONS; EASTERN HEMLOCK; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID; LONG-TERM PRESERVATION; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION;

CONSERVATION;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING METHOD; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; PRIORITIZATION; SEED BANK;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; INFESTATION; MAPPING; SEEDS; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ADELGES TSUGAE; ADELGIDAE; HEXAPODA; TSUGA CANADENSIS; TSUGA CAROLINIANA;

EID: 85014104554     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: 15735095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-017-9575-7     Document Type: Article

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