Breeding distributions of North American bird species moving north as a result of climate change

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 534-539

  Hitch, Alan T ^a,b   Leberg, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian distributions; Breeding distributions; Climate change; Global warming; North American birds; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 33947524368     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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