Current and potential future elevational distributions of birds associated with pinyon-juniper woodlands in the central great basin, U.S.A

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 731-739

  Fleishman, Erica ^a   Dobkin, David S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b High Desert Ecological Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid woodlands; Bird habitat associations; Breeding birds; Climate change; Great Basin; Guilds; Intermountain West; Land cover change; Passerines; Pinyon juniper woodlands

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GUILD STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NESTING; PASSERINE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WOODLAND;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; INTERMOUNTAIN WEST; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; TOQUIMA RANGE; UNITED STATES;

AVES; JUNIPERUS; PASSERIFORMES; PINUS EDULIS; PINUS MONOPHYLLA; SPIZELLA; SPIZELLA BREWERI; SPIZELLA PASSERINA;

EID: 70349498622     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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