Life history traits and niche instability impact accuracy and temporal transferability for historically calibrated distribution models of North American birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Wogan, Guinevere O U ^a,b,c  

^a National Audubon Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE; HABITAT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MODEL; SPECIES; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962550727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151024     Document Type: Article

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