Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Temperature a dominant influence on bird diversity loss in Mexico

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uok-sta070715.php

Public Release: 7-Jul-2015
University of Kansas

A wide-ranging study of gains and losses of populations of bird species across Mexico in the 20th century shows shifts in temperature due to global climate change are the primary environmental influence on the distributions of bird species.

"Of all drivers examined ... only temperature change had significant impacts on avifaunal turnover; neither precipitation change nor human impacts on landscapes had significant effects," wrote the authors of the study, which appeared recently in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.

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