The European functional tree of bird life in the face of global change

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Pironon, Samuel ^a,b   Psomas, Achilleas ^c   Barbet Massin, Morgane ^d   Jiguet, Frédéric ^d   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a   Pearman, Peter B ^c   Renaud, Julien ^a   Zupan, Laure ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; INHOMOGENEITY; LAND COVER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIRD; CLIMATE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUROPE;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84906094610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4118     Document Type: Article

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