ECOLOGY:
Assisted Colonization and Rapid Climate Change
O. Hoegh-Guldberg,1* L. Hughes,2 S. McIntyre,3 D. B. Lindenmayer,4 C. Parmesan,5 H. P. Possingham,6 C. D. Thomas,7
Moving species outside their historic ranges may mitigate loss of biodiversity in the face of global climate change.
1Centre for Marine Studies, Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Reef Studies and the Coral Reef Targeted Research Project, www.gefcoral.org, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland (QLD) 4072, Australia; oveh{at}uq.edu.au.
2Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia; lhughes{at}rna.bio.mq.edu.au.
3Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Sustainable Ecosystems, Post Office Box 284, Canberra Australian Capital Territory (ACT) 2601, Australia; Sue.McIntyre{at}csiro.au.
4Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; david.lindenmayer{at}anu.edu.au.
5Integrative Biology, 1 University Station C0930, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA; parmesan{at}uts.cc.utexas.edu.
6The Ecology Centre, Centre for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; h.possingham{at}uq.edu.au.
7Department of Biology, University of York, Post Office Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK; cdt2{at}york.ac.uk.
*Author for correspondence.
