Abundance changes and habitat availability drive species' responses to climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 127-131

  Mair, Louise ^a   Hill, Jane K ^a   Fox, Richard ^b   Botham, Marc ^c   Brereton, Tom ^b   Thomas, Chris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FACILITATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; RANGE EXPANSION;

EID: 84896864724     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2086     Document Type: Article

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