Temperature-associated dynamics of songbird winter distributions and abundances

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 657-660

  Butler, J Russell ^a   MacMynowski, Dena P ^b   Laurent, Chad ^c   Root, Terry L ^b  

^a Florida   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Renewable Energy Programs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 38349053324     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[657:TDOSWD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Andrewartha, H.G. and Birch, L.C. 1954. The Distribution and Abundance of Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 782 pp.
2. Parmesan, C., Ryrholm, N., Stefanescu, C., Hill, J.K., Thomas, C.D., Descimon, H., Huntley, B., Kaila, L., et al. 1999. Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming. Nature 399, 579-583.
3. Sagarin, R.D., Barry, J.P., Gilman, S.E. and Baxter, C.H. 1999. Climate-related change in an intertidal community over short and long time scales. Ecol. Monogr. 69, 465-490.
4. Pounds, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L. and Campbell, J.H. 1999. Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain. Nature 398, 611-615.
5. Martin, T. 2000. Abiotic vs. biotic influences on habitat selection of coexisting speices: climate change impacts? Ecology 82, 175-188.
6. Storch, D., Konvicka, M., Benes, J., Martinkova, J. and Gaston, K. 2003. Distribution patterns in butterflies and birds of the Czech Republic: separating effects of habitat and geographical position. J. Biogeogr. 30, 1195-1205.
7. Andrews, P. and O'Brien, E. 2000. Climate, vegetation, and predictable gradients in mammal species richness in southern Africa. J. Zool. 251, 205-231.
8. Boggs, C. and Murphy, D. 1997. Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distribution. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. Lett. 6, 39-48.
9. Forsman, J. and Monkkonen, M. 2003. The role of climate in limiting European bird populations. J. Biogeogr. 30, 55-70.
10. Cotgreave, P. 1995. Weather conditions are correlated with the relation between mass and abundance in bird communities. Acta Ecol. 16, 543-552.
11. Cueto, V. and Lopez, J. 1999. Determinants of bird species richness: role of climate and vegetation structure at a regional scale. J. Biogeogr. 26, 487-492.
12. Levin, S.A. 1992. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Ecology 73, 1943-1967.
13. Dobzhansky, T. 1950. Evolution in the tropics. Am. Sci. 38, 209-211.
14. MacArthur, R. 1972. Geographical Ecology. Harper and Row, New York, 269 pp.
15. Canterbury, G. 2002. Metabolic adaptation and climatic constraints on winter bird distribution. Ecology 83, 946-957.
16. Case, T.J. and Taper, M.L. 2000. Interspecific competition, environmental gradients, gene flows, and the coevolution of species' borders. Am. Nat. 155, 583-605.
17. Root, T.L. 1988. Environmental factors associated with avian distributional boundaries. J. Biogeogr. 15, 489-505.
18. Root, T.L. 1988. Energy constraints on avian distributions and abundances. Ecology 69, 330-339.
19. Canterbury, G. 2002. Metabolic adaptation and climatic constraints on winter bird distribution. Ecology 83, 946-957.
20. IPCC. 2001. Climate Change 2001: The Science of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 944 pp.
21. Raynor, G. 1975. Techniques for evaluating and analyzing Christmas Bird Count data. Am. Birds 29, 626-633.
22. Root, T.L. 1988. Atlas of Wintering North American Birds: an Analysis of Christmas bird count data. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 212 pp.
23. Bock, C. and Root, T.L. 1981. The Christmas Bird Count and avian ecology. Stud. Avian Biol. 6, 17-23.
24. Koenig, W.D. 2001. Spatial autocorrelation and local disappearances in wintering North American birds. Ecology 82, 2636-2644.
25. Ostlie, W., Schneider, R., Aldrich, J., Faust, T., McKim, R.B. and Chaplin, S. 1997. The Status of Biodiversity in the Great Plains. The Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis, 75 pp.
26. Brommer, J. 2004. The range margins of northern birds shift polewards. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 41, 391-397.
27. Thomas, C. and Lennon, J. 1999. Birds extend their ranges northwards. Nature 399, 212-213.
28. Valiela, I. and Bowen, J. 2003. Shifts in winter distribution in birds: effects of global warming and local habitat change. Ambio 32, 476-480.
29. Bohning-Gaese, K. and Lemoine. N. 2004. Importance of climate change for the ranges. communities, and conservation of birds. Adv. Ecol. Res. 35, 211-236.
30. Newton, I. 2003. The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds. Academic Press, London, 668 pp.
31. Peterson, A.T., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Bartley, J., Sanchez-Cordero, V., Soberson, J., Buddemeier, R. and Stockwell, D.R. 2002. Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios. Nature 416, 626-629.
32. Erasmus, B., van Jaarsveld, A., Chown, S., Kshatriya, M. and Wessels, K. 2002. Vulnerability of South Africa animal taxa to climate change. Glob. Change Biol. 8, 689 693.
33. Peterson, A.T. 2003. Projected climate change effects on Rocky Mountain and Great Plains birds: generalities of biodiversity consequences. Glob. Change Biol. 9, 647-655.
34. Huntley, B. 1995. Plant species' response to climate change: implications for the conservation of European birds. Ibis 137, S127-S138.
35. Benning, T.L., LaPointe, D., Atkinson, D. and Vitousek, P.M. 2002. Avian community dynamics are discordant in space and time. Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 14246-14249.
36. First submitted 25 July 2006. Accepted for publication 28 November 2006.