Predicting extinctions as a result of climate change

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1611-1615

  Schwartz, Mark W ^a   Iverson, Louis R ^b,c   Prasad, Anantha M ^b   Matthews, Stephen N ^b,c,d   O'Connor, Raymond J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate and environmental models; Climate change; Distribution breadth; Eastern United States; Endemic; Extinction; Prediction uncertainty; Regression tree; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; TREE; VULNERABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 33746491111     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1611:PEAARO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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