Does climate limit species richness by limiting individual species' ranges?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1776, 2013, Pages

  Boucher Lalonde, Véronique ^a   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a   Currie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Climatic niche; Richness climate relationship; Species richness carrying capacity; Temperature; Tropical niche conservatism

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CARRYING CAPACITY; CORRELATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; MIGRATION; NICHE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BIRD MIGRATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATIC NICHE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RICHNESS-CLIMATE RELATIONSHIP; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS CARRYING CAPACITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL NICHE CONSERVATISM; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

BIRD MIGRATION; CLIMATIC NICHE; RICHNESS-CLIMATE RELATIONSHIP; SPECIES RICHNESS CARRYING CAPACITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL NICHE CONSERVATISM;

AMERICAS; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84902668998     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2695     Document Type: Article

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