How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: A demographic research agenda for biogeography

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2146-2162

  Schurr, Frank M ^a,b,c   Pagel, Jörn ^a,d   Cabral, Juliano Sarmento ^e   Groeneveld, Jürgen ^f,g   Bykova, Olga ^h   O'Hara, Robert B ^d   Hartig, Florian ^f   Kissling, W Daniel ⁱ   Linder, H Peter ^j   Midgley, Guy F ^k,l   Schröder, Boris ^a,m   Singer, Alexander ^f   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ⁿ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^j Institute of Systematic Botany   (Switzerland)

^k SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^m TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁿ SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity monitoring; Climate change; Ecological forecasts; Ecological niche modelling; Ecological theory; Geographical range shifts; Global environmental change; Mechanistic models; Migration; Process based statistics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MIGRATION; NIAS EARTHQUAKE 2005; NICHE; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

HUTCHINSONIA;

EID: 84869862926     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02737.x     Document Type: Article

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