Swedish birds are tracking temperature but not rainfall: Evidence from a decade of abundance changes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 859-872

  Tayleur, Catherine ^a,b,c   Caplat, Paul ^a   Massimino, Dario ^d   Johnston, Alison ^d   Jonzén, Niclas ^a   Smith, Henrik G ^a   Lindström, Åke ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate tracking; Niche modelling; Range margins; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NICHE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL; RANGE SIZE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 84930377249     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12308     Document Type: Article

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