Projecting current and future location, quality, and connectivity of habitat for breeding birds in the Great Basin

Ecosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fleishman, E ^a   Thomson, J R ^b,c   Kalies, E L ^d   Dickson, B G ^d,e   Dobkin, D S ^f   Leu, M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology Landscape Conservation Initiative Northern Arizona University ^*  (United States)

^f High Desert Ecological Research Institute   (United States)

^g The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative scenarios; Climate change; Connectivity; Occupancy; Pinyon juniper; Remote sensing; Riparian; Species distribution models; Zonation software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905260965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00387.1     Document Type: Article

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