The future of suitable habitats of an endangered Neotropical grassland bird: A path to extinction?

ABSTRACT: Global changes increasingly worry researchers and policymakers and may have irreversible impacts on Earth's biodiversity. Similar to other phytophysiognomies, natural grasslands suffer from the effects of land use changes and rising temperatures, threatening animal and plant communities. Birds, being very sensitive to these changes, are widely studied and fundamental to understand the dynamics of ecosystems in relation to climate and land use changes. The Campo Miner Geositta poeciloptera is a grassland bird endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado and threatened with extinction that has been widely studied in recent years. We analyze the decrease in its extent of occurrence (EOO) and the effects of climate and land use change to understand the environmental suitability of the species in cu

SUBMITTER: Meireles RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926175 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature