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Securing the demographic and genetic future of tuatara through assisted colonization.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Oct 2012
Miller Kimberly A, Miller Hilary C, Moore Jennifer A, Mitchell Nicola J, Cree Alison, Allendorf Fred W, Sarre Stephen D, Keall Susan N, Nelson Nicola J
Abstract excerpt
Climate change poses a particular threat to species with fragmented distributions and little or no capacity to migrate. Assisted colonization, moving species into regions where they have not previously occurred, aims to establish populations where they are expected to survive as climatic envelopes shift. However, adaptation to the source environment may affect whether species successfully establish in new...
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