Ecological and life-history traits explain recent boundary shifts in elevation and latitude of western North American songbirds

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 867-875

  Auer, Sonya K ^a   King, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological specialization; Global climate change; Life history; Range shifts; Species traits

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RANGE SIZE; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIALIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 84903816057     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12174     Document Type: Article

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