Data from: Tiny niches and translocations: the challenge of identifying suitable recipient sites for small and immobile species ...
Assisted colonisation, one form of species translocation, has been proposed as a tool for helping species to track suitable conditions in a changing climate. There are considerable practical challenges associated with it, including predicting where to place translocated individuals. This problem may...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7cc7s https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7cc7s |
| Summary: | Assisted colonisation, one form of species translocation, has been proposed as a tool for helping species to track suitable conditions in a changing climate. There are considerable practical challenges associated with it, including predicting where to place translocated individuals. This problem may be particularly big for small and immobile species, where small-scale micro-environmental conditions de-couple them from environmental conditions as projected in large-scale climate models. To investigate this problem we developed a survey-based model to predict the occurrence of our target species, the fruticose terricolous arctic-alpine lichen, Flavocetraria nivalis, within the Cairngorm Mountains. We then undertook an experimental translocation of this species. A second model, using variables that were significant in the survey-based model, was only fair at predicting the initial pattern of survival at the recipient site. However, model fit of the translocation survival model improved over time as the ... : Wider vegetation survey dataData from a survey of habitats of the lichen Flavocetraria nivalis in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland. These data were used to produce the survey-based occurrence model described in our paper.Translocation survival dataThese data were used to produce the Translocation Survival Models 1 and 2 as described in our paper. They include records of lichen survival in 2011 and 2015, as well as values for the explanatory variables within the models. ... |
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