Suitability, success and sinks: How do predictions of nesting distributions relate to fitness parameters in high arctic waders?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1496-1505

  Pellissier, Loïc ^a   Meltofte, Hans ^a   Hansen, Jannik ^a   Schmidt, Niels M ^a,b   Tamstorf, Mikkel P ^a   Maiorano, Luigi ^c   Aastrup, Peter ^a   Olsen, Jeppe ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^c   Wisz, Mary S ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Demography; Habitat; Predation; Shorebird; Snow; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EGG PREDATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; HABITAT; NEST; NESTING; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SNOW COVER; WADER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ZACKENBERG;

ARENARIA INTERPRES; CALIDRIS ALBA; CALIDRIS ALPINA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 84887254442     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12109     Document Type: Article

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