Climate change and birds: perspectives and prospects from southern Africa

By R. Simmons, P. Barnard, W. Dean, Guy F. Midgley, Wilfried Thuiller, G. Hughes. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution (2011, background): “Using BEMs, climate-driven range shifts have been predicted for South African birds (Erasmus et al., 2002; Simmons et al., 2004; Huntley et al., 2006).”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and resilience of vertebrates to increasing climatic unpredictability. (2010, background): “In Southern Africa, nomadic bird species, which follow the rains throughout large parts of the continent, and breed just after the rain front, are expected to be ‘pre-adapted’ to increased rainfall variability (Simmons et al. 2004).”
Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them (2010, background): “Moreover, fire regimes are likely to undergo further changes, with larger or more frequent fires a probable outcome of climate change in many parts of the world (Cochrane and Barber, 2009; Flannigan et al., 2009; Malhi et al., 2009; McKenzie et al., 2004; Pitman et al., 2007; Simmons et al., 2004).”
Do geographic distribution, niche property and life form explain plants' vulnerability to global change? (2006, background): “, 2005; however, few studies have dealt with other taxa in this region (Erasmus et al., 2002; Simmons et al., 2004; Thuiller et al., 2006a).”
A status quo, vulnerability and adaptation assessment of the physical and socio-economic effects of climate change in the Western Cape (2005, background): “Very little work has assessed the potential response of indigenous fauna, but includes early work on endemic birds (Simmons et al. 2005) suggesting some potential negative impacts on Cape species such as Cape Sugarbird, Orange Breasted Sunbird and the Cape Bulbul (Figure 12).”