The role of climate, habitat, and species co-occurrence as drivers of change in small mammal distributions over the past century

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 696-708

  Rubidge, Emily M ^a,b   Monahan, William B ^a,c   Parra, Juan L ^a,d   Cameron, Susan E ^a,e   Brashares, Justin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological niche models; Habitat suitability; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Range shifts; Species distribution models; Tamias

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RODENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

MAMMALIA; TAMIAS;

EID: 78650775539     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02297.x     Document Type: Article

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