Temperature-related geographical shifts among passerines: Contrasting processes along poleward and equatorward range margins

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 5162-5176

  Coristine, Laura E ^a   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding birds; Climate change; Climate debt; Peripheral populations; Range shift; Thermal limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947966968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1683     Document Type: Article

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