Dangers of predicting bird species distributions in response to land-cover changes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 538-549

  Vallecillo, Sara ^a   Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Zoologia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Catalan breeding bird atlas, Spain; Colonization; Dynamic landscape; Early successional birds; ensemble forecasts; Extinction; Fire disturbance; Habitat suitability; Land cover changes; Model evaluation; Model uncertainty; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LAND COVER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES;

EID: 65349175680     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0348.1     Document Type: Article

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