The importance of range edges for an irruptive species during extreme weather events

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1095-1110

  Bateman, Brooke L ^a   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Allstadt, Andrew J ^a   Resit Akcakaya H ^b   Thogmartin, Wayne E ^c   Vavrus, Stephen J ^a   Heglund, Patricia J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Extreme weather; Grassland birds; Range core; Range edge; Refuges

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGE; REFUGIUM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; SPIZA; SPIZA AMERICANA;

EID: 84930274847     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0212-6     Document Type: Article

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