Predicting vulnerabilities of North American shorebirds to climate change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Galbraith, Hector ^a,d   DesRochers, David W ^b   Brown, Stephen ^a   Reed, J Michael ^c  

^a Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences   (United States)

^b DALTON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Wildlife Federation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; MIGRANT BIRD; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907495038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108899     Document Type: Article

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