Climate Change, Elevational Range Shifts, and Bird Extinctions

By Ç. Şekercioğlu, S. Schneider, John P. Fay, Scott Loarie. Conservation Biology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Poleward shifts in breeding bird distributions in New York State (2009, background): “A recent study by Sekercioglu et al. (2008) investigated the effects of elevational limits on the extinction risk of landbirds throughout the world.”
Common montane birds are declining in northern Europe (2014, background): “Th is is despite the fact that alpine species and habitats are expected to change particularly rapidly during this century due to climate change (Huntley et al. 2007, Gonzalez et al. 2010), leading to an increased risk of extinction (Sekercioglu et al. 2008).”
A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change (2011, methodology): “Climate change poses serious threats to species, both on its own and in conjunction with other stressors to species’ populations (e.g. Sala et al. 2000; Thomas et al. 2004; Malcolm et al. 2006; Parmesan 2006; Jetz, Wilcove & Dobson 2007; Sekercioglu et al. 2008; Rosenzweig et al. 2007, 2008; Fischli”
Evolutionary ecology at the extremes of species' ranges. (2010, neutral): “While examples of northward range expansions linked to climate warming are already widespread, new evidence shows a disquieting frequency of climate-driven extinctions and range retractions at lower latitudes and lower elevations (Parmesan 1996; Thomas et al. 2006; Sekercioglu et al. 2008).”
Ecological and life-history traits explain recent boundary shifts in elevation and latitude of western North American songbirds (2014, background): “Taken together, these results support current predictions that high-elevation species will be among those that are more vulnerable to extinction if climate change continues at its present rate (Sekercioglu et al., 2007).”
Assessing species vulnerability to climate and land use change: the case of the Swiss breeding birds (2014, background): “Land use change has certainly been the major driver of biodiversity loss in the past century due to its immediate impact on the habitats of many species, but climate change will probably become as important in the next decades in some landscapes (Sekercioglu et al., 2008; Dawson et al., 2011).”
Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota (2010, background): “Tropical forests are among the biologically richest ecosystems on Earth, but are being rapidly degraded and destroyed by habitat conversion.”
Animal Translocations: What are they and why do we do them? (2012, background): “Resource managers have been forced to deal with critical population declines and extinctions, ecosystem degradation and changing habitat conditions due to global climate change (Sekercioglu et al., 2008); consequently new forms of conservation interventions are being explored.”
Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction (2011, methodology): “, 1999), even though these habitats remain relatively under-sampled (Sekercioglu et al., 2008).”