The State of the World's Birds and the Future of Avian Diversity

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 379-403

  Thomas, Gavin H ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological processes, in understanding mechanisms of threat limited value for practical conservation; Extinction risk, not phylogenetically random 12 of the worlds bird species, threatened with extinction; Geographic distribution of threatened birds breeding ranges of extant birds, and maps of their global distributions; Global human distributions, and future projected anthropogenic impact on biodiversity if unchecked, a dramatic impact on avian distributions; Interaction effects, types of threat and species' ecology on extinction risk across families of birds; Rapidity of recent and projected climate change new challenges to the worlds biota; State of the world's birds and future of avian diversity avian diversity hanging in the balance, human activity impacts on populations, species and ecosystems on a global scale; The future conservation and climate change; Threats to and drivers of recent and projected avian extinctions differential responses to global change, and how they shape future of avian diversity; Zoological Society of London, and the Evolutionary Distinct Globally Endangered (EDGE) program raising awareness and funds for conservation of species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862275824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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