Contrasting effects of climatic and habitat changes on birds with northern range limits in Central Europe as revealed by an analysis of breeding bird distribution in the Czech Republic

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-90

  Reif, Jiří ^a,b   Št'Astný, Karel ^c   Bejček, Vladimír ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Daphne Czech Republic Institute for Applied Ecology   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

atlas mapping; birds; breeding distribution; global warming; habitat change; range shift

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVES;

EID: 77955644606     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/000164510X516128     Document Type: Article

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