Evaluating confidence in climate-based predictions of population change in a migratory species

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1000-1012

  Saunders, Sarah P ^a   Ries, Leslie ^b,c   Oberhauser, Karen S ^d   Zipkin, Elise F ^a,e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Danaus plexippus; forecasting; migratory; monarch butterflies; negative binomial model; prediction; spatial synchrony

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FORECASTING METHOD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION;

ILLINOIS; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84969895397     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12461     Document Type: Article

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