Land Cover Constrains Range Shifts in Northern Iberian Bird Species Under Climate Change Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Climate and land cover changes are considered some of the most important drivers of the current biodiversity crisis. The assessment of their combined impacts is starting to attract greater attention. In this study, we assess the role of land cover changes in constraining species range shifts under climate change scenarios in the Iberian Peninsula. We assessed the relative contribution of climate and land cover to the current distribution of 32 northern Iberian bird species using ecological niche models and deviance partitioning. We also assessed how different scenarios of climate change may affect species distributions, with or without changes in land cover. In addition to the independent effect of climate, the current distribution of northern Iberian birds was also shaped by the joint eff

SUBMITTER: Cardador L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12310289 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature