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Conserving moving species under changing landscapes and climates.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conserving moving species under changing landscapes and climates.
Author:	Loarie, Scott Robbins.
Description:	122 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stuart L. Pimm.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: B, page: 4055.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-07B.
Subject:	Statistics.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3315555
ISBN:	9780549665274

Conserving moving species under changing landscapes and climates.
Loarie, Scott Robbins.

Conserving moving species under changing landscapes and climates. - 122 p.

Adviser: Stuart L. Pimm.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2008.

Chapter 2 uses Global Climate Models and museum specimens to projects the impact of climate change on the flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot. With anticipated climate change, up to 66% may experience >80% reductions in range size within a century. These projections are less severe if plants are able to disperse in time. With no constraints on dispersal, plant centroids move an average of up to 150 km. The projections identify regions where species undergoing severe range reductions may persist. Protecting these potential future refugia and facilitating species dispersal may be essential to maintain biodiversity in the face of climate change.

ISBN: 9780549665274Subjects--Topical Terms:

182057
Statistics.

Conserving moving species under changing landscapes and climates.
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520 $a Chapter 4 uses the datasets described in chapter 3 to explore elephant vegetation preferences. Elephants consistently prefer greener vegetation throughout the year. Vegetation preferences vary seasonally. Elephants prefer less variable vegetation such as forests in the dry season and ephemeral vegetation such as grasslands in the wet season.
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