Spatiotemporal variation in avian migration phenology: Citizen science reveals effects of climate change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hurlbert, Allen H ^a   Liang, Zhongfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVIAN MIGRATION PHENOLOGY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MIGRATING BIRD; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION; SPECIES; SPRING; WARMING; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

AVES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857486593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031662     Document Type: Article

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