Poleward Range Shifts of Breeding Birds in Wisconsin.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is causing shifts in the geographic ranges of multiple species across the world. Birds are a critical taxon for observing range shifts because their high mobility allows them to track shifting climates over time and space. Breeding bird atlases are large-scale breeding bird surveys that are essential for tracking species' ranges in response to climate change. In this paper, our goal was to analyze Wisconsin's Breeding Bird Atlases (1995-2000 and 2015-2019) to document changes in range size, mean latitude, and range boundary shift of breeding birds. Concordant with our predictions, we found that many southerly bird species with northern range limits were both expanding in distribution and shifting their range boundaries poleward. Contrary to our predictions, northerly species

SUBMITTER: Stallworth DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12304433 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature