Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1807, 2015, Pages

  Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a   Durant, Joël M ^a   Fowler, Mike S ^b,c   Matthysen, Erik ^d   Adriaensen, Frank ^d   Jonzén, Niclas ^e   Chan, Kung Sik ^f   Liu, Hai ^g   De Laet, Jenny ^h   Sheldon, Ben C ⁱ   Visser, Marcel E ^j   Dhondt, André A ^d,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^k Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

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Author keywords

Climate variation; Coexistence and competitive exclusion; Intra and interspecific competition; Statistical modelling; Threshold modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PASSERINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

EUROPE;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84928902754     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1958     Document Type: Article

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