Performance of climate envelope models in retrodicting recent changes in bird population size from observed climatic change

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 599-602

  Green, Rhys E ^a,b   Collingham, Yvonne C ^c   Willis, Stephen G ^c   Gregory, Richard D ^b   Smith, Ken W ^b   Huntley, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate envelope models; Climate response surface models; Climate suitability; Population trends; Rare Breeding Birds Panel

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RARE SPECIES; SIMULATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 51549094826     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0052     Document Type: Article

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