Climate‐related range shifts in Arctic‐breeding shorebirds
Abstract Aim To test whether the occupancy of shorebirds has changed in the eastern Canadian Arctic, and whether these changes could indicate that shorebird distributions are shifting in response to long‐term climate change. Location Foxe Basin and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut, Canada. Methods We use...
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crwiley:10.1002/ece3.9797 2024-09-15T18:02:17+00:00 Climate‐related range shifts in Arctic‐breeding shorebirds Anderson, Christine M. Fahrig, Lenore Rausch, Jennie Martin, Jean‐Louis Daufresne, Tanguy Smith, Paul A. ArcticNet Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Environment and Climate Change Canada Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor W. Garfield Weston Foundation 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9797 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.9797 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.9797 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ecology and Evolution volume 13, issue 2 ISSN 2045-7758 2045-7758 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9797 2024-08-22T04:18:11Z Abstract Aim To test whether the occupancy of shorebirds has changed in the eastern Canadian Arctic, and whether these changes could indicate that shorebird distributions are shifting in response to long‐term climate change. Location Foxe Basin and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut, Canada. Methods We used a unique set of observations, made 25 years apart, using general linear models to test if there was a relationship between changes in shorebird species' occupancy and their species temperature Index, a simple version of a species climate envelope. Results Changes in occupancy and density varied widely across species, with some increasing and some decreasing. This is despite that overall population trends are known to be negative for all of these species based on surveys during migration. The changes in occupancy that we observed were positively related to the species temperature index, such that the warmer‐breeding species appear to be moving into these regions, while colder‐breeding species appear to be shifting out of the regions, likely northward. Main Conclusions Our results suggest that we should be concerned about declining breeding habitat availability for bird species whose current breeding ranges are centered on higher and colder latitudes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Climate change Foxe Basin Nunavut Wiley Online Library Ecology and Evolution 13 2 |
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Abstract Aim To test whether the occupancy of shorebirds has changed in the eastern Canadian Arctic, and whether these changes could indicate that shorebird distributions are shifting in response to long‐term climate change. Location Foxe Basin and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut, Canada. Methods We used a unique set of observations, made 25 years apart, using general linear models to test if there was a relationship between changes in shorebird species' occupancy and their species temperature Index, a simple version of a species climate envelope. Results Changes in occupancy and density varied widely across species, with some increasing and some decreasing. This is despite that overall population trends are known to be negative for all of these species based on surveys during migration. The changes in occupancy that we observed were positively related to the species temperature index, such that the warmer‐breeding species appear to be moving into these regions, while colder‐breeding species appear to be shifting out of the regions, likely northward. Main Conclusions Our results suggest that we should be concerned about declining breeding habitat availability for bird species whose current breeding ranges are centered on higher and colder latitudes. |
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Climate‐related range shifts in Arctic‐breeding shorebirds |
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Climate‐related range shifts in Arctic‐breeding shorebirds |
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