Climate change causes rapid changes in the distribution and site abundance of birds in winter

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2489-2500

  Maclean, Ilya M D ^a   Austin, Graham E ^a   Rehfisch, Mark M ^a   Blew, Jan ^b   Crowe, Olivia ^c   Delany, Simon ^d   Devos, Koen ^e   Deceuninck, Bernard ^f   Günther, Klaus ^b   Laursen, Karsten ^g   Van Roomen, Marc ^h   Wahl, Johannes ⁱ  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b BirdWatch Ireland ^*  (Germany)

^c BIRDWATCH IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL   (Netherlands)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^f La Corderie Royale   (France)

^g National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

^h SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation; Global change; Global warming; Range expansion; Range shift; Re distribution; Shore bird; Special protection area

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; PROTECTED AREA; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WADER; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CHARADRII; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 54449088591     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01666.x     Document Type: Article

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