Climate impacts on bird and plant communities from altered animal-plant interactions

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 195-200

  Martin, Thomas E ^a   Maron, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANYON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SNOW; SONGBIRD;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERVUS CANADENSIS; PASSERI;

EID: 84857509750     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1348     Document Type: Article

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