Climate change-linked range expansion of Nathusius' pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2232-2242

  Lundy, Mathieu ^a   Montgomery, Ian ^a   Russ, Jon ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Ridgeway Ecology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope models; Chiroptera; Climate change; Habitat associations; Modelling; Nathusius' pipistrelle bat; Pipistrellus nathusii; Range expansion; Species distributions; UK

Indexed keywords

BAT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGE EXPANSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; PIPISTRELLUS NATHUSII;

EID: 78649509731     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02384.x     Document Type: Article

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