Changes in potential habitat of 147 North American breeding bird species in response to redistribution of trees and climate following predicted climate change

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 933-945

  Matthews, Stephen N ^a,b   Iverson, Louis R ^a   Prasad, Anantha M ^a   Peters, Matthew P ^a  

^a US Forest Service   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 83055179947     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06803.x     Document Type: Article

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