Ecological niche modelling and prioritizing areas for species reintroductions
Issue Date
2006-10Author
Martínez-Meyer, Enrique
Peterson, A. Townsend
Servín, Jorge I.
Kiff, Lloyd F.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Oryx (2006), 40:4:411-418 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2006 Fauna & Flora International
doi:10.1017/S0030605306001360
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Species reintroduction programmes, in prioritizing
areas for reintroductions, have traditionally used
tools that include measures of habitat suitability and
evaluations of area requirements for viable populations.
Here we add two tools to this approach: evaluation of
ecological requirements of species and evaluation of
future suitability for species facing changing climates.
We demonstrate this approach with two species for
which reintroduction programmes are in the planning
stages in Mexico: California condor Gymnogyps californianus
and Mexican wolf Canis lupus baileyi. For the condor, we identify three areas clustered in the Sierra
San Pedro Ma´rtir, Baja California; for the wolf, we
identify a string of suitable sites along the Sierra Madre
Occidental of western Mexico. We discuss the limitations
of this approach, identifying ways in which the
models illustrated could be made more realistic and
directly useful to reintroduction programmes.
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Martínez-Meyer, E., A. T. Peterson, J. Servín, and L. F. Kiff. 2006. Ecological niche modelling and prioritizing areas for species reintroductions. Oryx 40:411-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605306001360
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