Moving beyond presence and absence when examining changes in species distributions

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2929-2940

  Ashcroft, Michael B ^a   King, Diana H ^a   Raymond, Ben ^b,c   Turnbull, Johanna D ^a   Wasley, Jane ^a,b   Robinson, Sharon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic mosses; climate change; geographic range; negative binomial distribution; population abundance; presence absence data; range shifts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MOSS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; RANGE EXPANSION;

ANTARCTICA;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85013648727     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13628     Document Type: Review

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