Between a rock and a hard place: The impacts of climate change and housing development on breeding birds in California

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-200

  Jongsomjit, Dennis ^a   Stralberg, Diana ^a,b   Gardali, Thomas ^a   Salas, Leonardo ^a   Wiens, John ^a,c  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

California; Exurban development; Generalized additive models; Land use change; Species distribution models; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 84873713052     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9825-1     Document Type: Article

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