Niche conservatism in non-native birds in Europe: Niche unfilling rather than niche expansion

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 962-970

  Strubbe, Diederik ^a   Broennimann, Olivier ^b   Chiron, François ^c   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Birds; Climate environment matching; DAISIE; Europe; Niche conservatism; Niche equivalency; Niche shift; Niche similarity; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MODELING; NICHE OVERLAP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880030823     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12050     Document Type: Article

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