Weather, Not Climate, Defines Distributions of Vagile Bird Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Reside, April E ^a,b   Vanderwal, Jeremy J ^b   Kutt, Alex S ^a   Perkins, Genevieve C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HABITAT; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; SAVANNA; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER; ANIMAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEATHER;

EID: 78149421267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013569     Document Type: Article

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