Summer vegetation, deglaciation and the anomalous bird diversity gradient in eastern North America

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-325

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird species richness; Diversity gradients; Global vegetation index; Ice age; NDVI; Palaeoclimates; Productivity; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DEGLACIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NDVI; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 3142677980     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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