Climate Change and the Migration Capacity of Species. Pearson, R. G. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(3):111–113, 2006.
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In a recent paper, McLachlan et al. presented evidence that migration rates of two tree species at the end of the last glacial (c. 10-20 thousand years ago) were much slower than was previously thought. These results provide an important insight for climate-change impacts studies and suggest that the ability of species to track future climate change is limited. However, the detection of late-glacial refugia close to modern range limits also implies that some of our most catastrophic projections might be overstated.
@article{pearsonClimateChangeMigration2006,
  title = {Climate Change and the Migration Capacity of Species},
  author = {Pearson, Richard G.},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {21},
  pages = {111--113},
  issn = {0169-5347},
  doi = {10.1016/j.tree.2005.11.022},
  abstract = {In a recent paper, McLachlan et al. presented evidence that migration rates of two tree species at the end of the last glacial (c. 10-20 thousand years ago) were much slower than was previously thought. These results provide an important insight for climate-change impacts studies and suggest that the ability of species to track future climate change is limited. However, the detection of late-glacial refugia close to modern range limits also implies that some of our most catastrophic projections might be overstated.},
  journal = {Trends in Ecology \& Evolution},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-13231198,climate-change,conservation,ecosystem-change,forest-resources,glacial-refugia,long-distance-dispersal,migration-history,spatial-spread,species-dispersal},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-13231198},
  number = {3}
}

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