Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 19637-19643

  Tingley, Morgan W ^a,b   Monahan, William B ^c   Beissinger, Steven R ^a,b   Moritz, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Audubon California   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic niche; Elevational gradient; Geographic range; Occupancy dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

AVES; GRINNELLIA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEVADA;

EID: 73949114854     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901562106     Document Type: Article

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