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Ecological niche modelling and prioritizing areas for species reintroductions
Martínez-Meyer, Enrique Peterson, A. Townsend Servín, Jorge I. Kiff, Lloyd F.
Martínez-Meyer, Enrique
Peterson, A. Townsend
Servín, Jorge I.
Kiff, Lloyd F.
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Abstract
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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2006-10
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Cambridge University Press
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California condor, Canis lupus baileyi, Ecological niche modeling, Gymnogyps californianus, Mexican wolf, Reintroduction
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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