Variation in abundance across a species' range predicts climate change responses in the range interior will exceed those at the edge: A case study with North American beaver

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 508-522

  Jarema, Stacey I ^a   Samson, Jason ^a   McGill, Brian J ^b   Humphries, Murray M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundant center hypothesis; Climate change; Climate envelope modeling; Furbearer; Mammal; Quantile regression; Relative abundance; Rodent; Spatial ecology; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CASTOR CANADENSIS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 58549103927     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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