Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Biological Sciences

Content Description

1 online resource (x, 143 pages) : PDF file, illustrations (some color), color map

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Jeremy J Kirchman

Committee Members

Mary K Gonder, Roland Kays, Kurt McKean

Keywords

Boreal Birds, Climate Change, Dendroica striata, Ecological Niche Models, Phylogeography, Wood warblers, Climatic changes, Taigas

Subject Categories

Biology | Climate | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract

In this dissertation, I combine ecological niche models (ENMs), which can be extrapolated through time to predict historic and future changes in species distributions, with mitochondrial and nuclear genetic markers to study the biogeographic consequences of historic and contemporary climate change on boreal forest birds, and in particular Blackpoll Warbler.

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