Expanding northward: Influence of climate change, forest connectivity, and population processes on a threatened species' range shift

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Melles, S J ^a   Fortin, M J ^a   Lindsay, K ^b   Badzinski, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Bird Studies Canada ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate change; Establishment and immigration; Forest connectivity; Forest cover; Ontario; Range change; Spatial regression; Species at risk; Zero inflated Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST COVER; IMMIGRATION; MORTALITY RISK; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POISSON RATIO; RANGE EXPANSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES; WILSONIA (AVES); WILSONIA CITRINA;

EID: 78649795418     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02214.x     Document Type: Article

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