Will a warmer and wetter future cause extinction of native Hawaiian forest birds?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4342-4352

  Liao, Wei ^a   Elison Timm, Oliver ^b   Zhang, Chunxi ^c   Atkinson, Carter T ^d   Lapointe, Dennis A ^d   Samuel, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Climate model; Hawaiian forest birds; Mathematical modeling; Mosquito vector

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE VECTOR; EXTINCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WARMING;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; HAWAII; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRANSMISSION;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORESTS; HAWAII; MALARIA, AVIAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

EID: 84947033707     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13005     Document Type: Article

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