180,000 Years of climate change in Europe: Avifaunal responses and vegetation implications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Holm, Sandra Ravnsbæk ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; EUROPE; FOREST; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FORESTS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84899464608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094021     Document Type: Article

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