Tag Archive: assisted colonization 
Some species threatened by climate change could be moved to new ecosystems, says biologist
Camille Parmesan's new, big idea in conservation biology—the "assisted colonization" of species threatened by climate change—is a product, in roughly equal parts, of cynicism, experience and hope. Parmesan, an associate professor of integrative biology, wasn't cynical at all when she first got involved, in the mid-1990s, with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… » Continue Reading
Global Warming Experts Recommend Drastic Measures to Save Species
An international team of conservation scientists from Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, including University of Texas at Austin Professor Camille Parmesan, calls for new conservation tactics, such as assisted migration, in the face of the growing threat of climate change.
