Back from a predicted climatic extinction of an island endemic: A future for the Corsican Nuthatch

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Barbet Massin, Morgane ^a   Jiguet, Frédéric ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORSICAN NUTHATCH; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PINE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SONGBIRD; TREE;

PINUS NIGRA; PINUS PINASTER; SITTA WHITEHEADI;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PINUS; TREES;

EID: 79953038897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018228     Document Type: Article

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