Endemic and threatened birds as surrogates for identifying conservation priority areas and ecological corridors in the America's most endangered habitat.

ABSTRACT: Investigating multi-taxa macroecological patterns can provide critical insights for spatial conservation planning and landscape management across biodiversity hotspots. The Pernambuco Endemism Center (PEC) is a biogeographic region of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest known to harbor the most threatened habitats in the Americas and a considerable number of recent bird extinctions. Here, we modeled the distribution of 30 threatened forest-dependent birds, 29 of which endemic to the PEC, to reveal key habitats/resources for their survival, identify conservation priority areas, and design ecological corridors. We found variations in the responses of the taxa to landscape characteristics when we addressed these organisms separately and when we grouped them by conservation status. Overall, the envi

SUBMITTER: da Costa Dias T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11412977 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature