The environmental limits to geographic range expansion in birds

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 705-715

  Pigot, Alex L ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^a,b   Orme, C David L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental gradients; Null models; Range edges; Range shape; Species' distributions

Indexed keywords

AVES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77953943345     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01462.x     Document Type: Article

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