Climate forcing of wetland landscape connectivity in the Great Plains

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-64

  McIntyre, Nancy E ^a   Wright, Christopher K ^b   Swain, Sharmistha ^a   Hayhoe, Katharine ^a   Liu, Ganming ^c   Schwartz, Frank W ^c   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROECOLOGY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; RAINWATER; WETLAND;

GREAT PLAINS; NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 84894248037     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120369     Document Type: Article

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