Does seasonal fine-tuning of climatic variables improve the performance of bioclimatic envelope models for migratory birds?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 502-510

  Heikkinen, R K ^a   Luoto, M ^a   Virkkala, R ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bird atlas; Boreal regions; Distribution; Model accuracy; Species climate model

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; ATLAS; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES;

EID: 33747428769     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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