Expansion vs. Compression of bird altitudinal ranges on a Mediterranean Island

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1294-1306

  Prodon, Roger ^a   Thibault, Jean Claude ^b   Dejaifve, Pierre André ^c,d  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Parc Naturel Regl de la Corse   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^d Reserve Naturelle du Val d'Allier   (France)

Author keywords

Altitudinal zonation; Breeding birds; Corsica; Elevational gradient; Habitat niche expansion; Islands, habitat broadening; Mediterranean; Pleistocene, climatic cycles; Pyrenees; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AVIFAUNA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISLAND; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

CORSICA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PYRENEES;

AVES;

EID: 0037698913     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1294:EVCOBA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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