Vulnerability of Subarctic and Arctic breeding birds:
Recent research predicts that future climate change will result in substantial biodiversity loss associated with loss of habitat for species. However, the magnitude of the anticipated biodiversity impacts are less well known. Studies of species vulnerability to climate change through species distrib...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/581244 2024-01-21T10:02:04+01:00 Vulnerability of Subarctic and Arctic breeding birds: Hof, Anouschka R. Rodríguez-Castañeda, Genoveva Allen, Andrew M. Jansson, Roland Nilsson, Christer 2017 text/html https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/vulnerability-of-subarctic-and-arctic-breeding-birds https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1434 en eng https://edepot.wur.nl/545007 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/vulnerability-of-subarctic-and-arctic-breeding-birds doi:10.1002/eap.1434 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Wageningen University & Research Ecological Applications 27 (2017) 1 ISSN: 1051-0761 Arctic region Subarctic region biodiversity birds climate change natural history traits specialists species distribution modeling info:eu-repo/semantics/article Article/Letter to editor info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftunivwagenin https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1434 2023-12-27T23:14:21Z Recent research predicts that future climate change will result in substantial biodiversity loss associated with loss of habitat for species. However, the magnitude of the anticipated biodiversity impacts are less well known. Studies of species vulnerability to climate change through species distribution models are often limited to assessing the extent of species' exposure to the consequences of climate change to their local environment, neglecting species sensitivity to global change. The likelihood that species or populations will decline or go extinct due to climate change also depends on the general sensitivity and adaptive capacity of species. Hence, analyses should also obtain more accurate assessments of their vulnerability. We addressed this by constructing a vulnerability matrix for 180 bird species currently breeding in Subarctic and Arctic Europe that integrates a climatic exposure-based vulnerability index and a natural-history trait-based vulnerability index. Species that may need extra conservation attention based on our matrix include the Great Snipe (Gallinago media), the Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus), the Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), the Common Swift (Apus apus), the Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris), and the Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica). Our vulnerability matrix stresses the importance of looking beyond exposure to climate change when species conservation is the aim. For the species that scored high in our matrix the future in the region looks grim and targeted conservation actions, incorporating macroecological and global perspectives, may be needed to alleviate severe population declines. We further demonstrate that climate change is predicted to significantly reduce the current breeding range of species adapted to cold climates in Subarctic and Arctic Europe. The number of incubation days and whether the species was a habitat specialist or not were also among the variables most strongly related to predicted contraction or expansion of species' breeding ranges. This ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Apus apus Arctic Arctic Climate change Eremophila alpestris Gallinago media great snipe Subarctic Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library Arctic Grim ENVELOPE(-64.486,-64.486,-65.379,-65.379) Ecological Applications 27 1 219 234 |
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Recent research predicts that future climate change will result in substantial biodiversity loss associated with loss of habitat for species. However, the magnitude of the anticipated biodiversity impacts are less well known. Studies of species vulnerability to climate change through species distribution models are often limited to assessing the extent of species' exposure to the consequences of climate change to their local environment, neglecting species sensitivity to global change. The likelihood that species or populations will decline or go extinct due to climate change also depends on the general sensitivity and adaptive capacity of species. Hence, analyses should also obtain more accurate assessments of their vulnerability. We addressed this by constructing a vulnerability matrix for 180 bird species currently breeding in Subarctic and Arctic Europe that integrates a climatic exposure-based vulnerability index and a natural-history trait-based vulnerability index. Species that may need extra conservation attention based on our matrix include the Great Snipe (Gallinago media), the Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus), the Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), the Common Swift (Apus apus), the Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris), and the Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica). Our vulnerability matrix stresses the importance of looking beyond exposure to climate change when species conservation is the aim. For the species that scored high in our matrix the future in the region looks grim and targeted conservation actions, incorporating macroecological and global perspectives, may be needed to alleviate severe population declines. We further demonstrate that climate change is predicted to significantly reduce the current breeding range of species adapted to cold climates in Subarctic and Arctic Europe. The number of incubation days and whether the species was a habitat specialist or not were also among the variables most strongly related to predicted contraction or expansion of species' breeding ranges. This ... |
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Vulnerability of Subarctic and Arctic breeding birds: |
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Vulnerability of Subarctic and Arctic breeding birds: |
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