Beyond climate envelopes: Bio-climate modelling accords with observed 25-year changes in seabird populations of the British Isles

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 211-222

  Russell, Deborah J F ^a,b   Wanless, Sarah ^c   Collingham, Yvonne C ^d   Anderson, Barbara J ^e,f   Beale, Colin ^e   Reid, James B ^g   Huntley, Brian ^d   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^g JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modelling; Global warming; Long term studies; Population monitoring; Space for time substitutions; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEABIRD; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84920784528     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12272     Document Type: Article

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