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Erciyes Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, vol.31, no.2, pp.473-480, 2015 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Understanding the distribution of species is quite important top reserve biodiversity and to its effective management. There is limited sample to achieve the actual distribution of many taxa and hence, ecologists and conservation managers rely mainly on some distribution models to indicate the potential distribution range of a species in consequence of climatic changes. In this study a widespread summer migrant bird species in Turkey, the Black-headed Buntings (Emberiza melanocephala Scopoli, 1769) distribution in relation to temperature and precipitation changes has been demonstrated with DOMAIN method in DivaGIS program. According the results Black-headed Bunting is widely distributede specially in Southeast Anatolian region, the Central Anatolian steppes and in the oak fields of Aegean and Mediterranean Regions, and while it is not present in alpine belt it will increase in the coasts of the Black Sea Region.