Niche tracking and rapid establishment of distributional equilibrium in the house sparrow show potential responsiveness of species to climate change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Monahan, William B ^a   Tingley, Morgan W ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPARROW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; SPARROWS;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84864444810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042097     Document Type: Article

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