Understanding relationships among abundance, extirpation, and climate at ecoregional scales

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1563-1571

  Beever, Erik A ^a,b   Dobrowski, S Z ^c   Long, J ^d   Mynsberge, A R ^c   Piekielek, N B ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American pika; Climate change; Ecohydrologic variables; Hydrographic Great Basin; Information theoretic analyses; Mechanisms of climate species relationships; Ochotona princeps; Talus habitat

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOREGION; HYDROGRAPHY; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; SMALL MAMMAL; TALUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; LAGOMORPH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LAGOMORPHA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880516086     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2174.1     Document Type: Article

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