Precipitation and winter temperature predict long-term range-scale abundance changes in Western North American birds

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3351-3364

  Illán, Javier Gutiérrez ^a,b   Thomas, Chris D ^b   Jones, Julia A ^a   Wong, Weng Keen ^a   Shirley, Susan M ^a   Betts, Matthew G ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird populations; Boosted regression trees; Climate envelope models; Global change; Niche models; Pacific Northwest; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

AVES;

RAIN; SNOW;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIRD; BRITISH COLUMBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; SNOW; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84907900122     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12642     Document Type: Article

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