Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation

By R. Mac Nally, A. Bennett, J. Thomson, James Q. Radford, Guy Unmack, G. Horrocks, Peter Vesk. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species (2013, background): “There was a decline in about two-thirds of woodland bird species during a 13-year drought (1997–2010) in Victoria, but the noisy miner became more abundant (Mac Nally et al., 2009).”
A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food (2011, background): “These climatic fluctuations are not new but, when imposed on a degraded ecosystem that has been reduced to a series of disjunct fragments surrounded by an inhospitable matrix, the likelihood of prey shortages increases, explaining the previously reported coincidence of local extinctions with drought”
The effects of climate change on tropical birds (2012, background): “The problem of extensive protected areas losing bird populations due to climate change (Mac Nally et al., 2009) makes it essential to integrate human-dominated landscapes into conservation areas.”
Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution (2011, background): “The implications for the effectiveness of existing reserve networks in conserving biodiversity into the future are profound (Mac Nally et al., 2009), especially in relation to the role of transformed landscapes (‘the matrix’; e.g. Hannah et al., 2005).”
The causes of decline of birds of eucalypt woodlands: advances in our knowledge over the last 10 years (2011, background): “Mac Nally et al. (2009) described the collapse of the avifauna in woodlands and open forests in Victoria after 11 years of drought.”