Projecting the local impacts of climate change on a Central American montane avian community

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1250-1258

  Gasner, Matthew R ^a   Jankowski, Jill E ^c   Ciecka, Anna L ^a   Kyle, Keiller O ^a   Rabenold, Kerry N ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitudinal gradient; Biodiversity conservation; Central America; Climate envelope model; Range shift; Tropical birds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HARBOR; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CORDILLERA DE TILARAN; COSTA RICA; GUANACASTE;

AVES;

EID: 77951025729     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.034     Document Type: Article

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