Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2272-2283

  Oliver, Tom H ^a,b   Gillings, Simon ^c   Pearce Higgins, James W ^c   Brereton, Tom ^d   Crick, Humphrey Q P ^e   Duffield, Simon J ^e   Morecroft, Michael D ^e   Roy, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^d BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change impacts; climate change indicators; community shifts; community temperature index; land use climate interactions; land use impacts; land use intensity

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; LAND USE; MONITORING;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMAL; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85010690617     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13587     Document Type: Article

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