Directionality of recent bird distribution shifts and climate change in Great Britain

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2155-2168

  Gillings, Simon ^a   Balmer, Dawn E ^a   Fuller, Robert J ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Climate change; Directionality; Precipitation; Range dynamics; Range margins; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGE EXPANSION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES;

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREAT BRITAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREAT BRITAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84926188873     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12823     Document Type: Article

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