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Clark Rushing (Former Employee)
Science and Products
Development of Robust Bird-based Climate Change Indicator
The Challenge: Appropriate ecological indicators of climate change can be used to measure concurrent changes in ecological systems, inform management decisions, and project the consequences of climate change. Breeding bird distributions are predicted to be sensitive to changes in climate, and could be useful climate-change indicators. We seek to develop robust bird-based, climate-change...