Twentieth century turnover of Mexican endemic avifaunas: Landscape change versus climate drivers.

ABSTRACT: Numerous climate change effects on biodiversity have been anticipated and documented, including extinctions, range shifts, phenological shifts, and breakdown of interactions in ecological communities, yet the relative balance of different climate drivers and their relationships to other agents of global change (for example, land use and land-use change) remains relatively poorly understood. This study integrated historical and current biodiversity data on distributions of 115 Mexican endemic bird species to document areas of concentrated gains and losses of species in local communities, and then related those changes to climate and land-use drivers. Of all drivers examined, at this relatively coarse spatial resolution, only temperature change had significant impacts on avifaunal turnover;

SUBMITTER: Peterson AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4640638 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature