The performance of models relating species geographical distributions to climate is independent of trophic level

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 417-426

  Huntley, Brian ^a   Green, Rhys E ^b   Collingham, Yvonne C ^a   Hill, Jane K ^a,c   Willis, Stephen G ^a   Bartlein, Patrick J ^d   Cramer, Wolfgang ^e   Hagemeijer, Ward J M ^f,g   Thomas, Christopher J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Butterflies; Climate change; Envelope models; Europe; Goodness of fit; Higher plants

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AVES; EMBRYOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 2542420376     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00598.x     Document Type: Article

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