Climate and food synchronize regional forest bird abundances

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3024-3032

  Jones, Jason ^a   Doran, Patrick J ^a   Holmes, Richard T ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian population dynamics; Climate; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Food abundance; Forest bird abundance; New Hampshire (USA); North Atlantic Oscillation; Spatial synchrony; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION REGULATION; SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PASSERI;

EID: 1342288313     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0639     Document Type: Article

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