Contrasting impacts of precipitation on Mediterranean birds and butterflies.

ABSTRACT: The climatic preferences of the species determine to a large extent their response to climate change. Temperature preferences have been shown to play a key role in driving trends in animal populations. However, the relative importance of temperature and precipitation preferences is still poorly understood, particularly in systems where ecological processes are strongly constrained by the amount and timing of rainfall. In this study, we estimated the role played by temperature and precipitation preferences in determining population trends for birds and butterflies in a Mediterranean area. Trends were derived from long-term biodiversity monitoring data and temperature and precipitation preferences were estimated from species distribution data at three different geographical scales. We show t

SUBMITTER: Herrando S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450943 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature