Protected area networks and savannah bird biodiversity in the face of climate change and land degradation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1061-1068

  Beale, Colin M ^a   Baker, Neil E ^b   Brewer, Mark J ^c   Lennon, Jack J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Tanzania Bird Atlas   (Tanzania)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Conditional autoregressive models; Distribution change; Global change; National parks; Occupancy models

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84931749098     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12139     Document Type: Article

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