State of the world's birds

AC Lees, L Haskell, T Allinson… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
We present an overview of the global spatiotemporal distribution of avian biodiversity,
changes in our knowledge of that biodiversity, and the extent to which it is imperilled. Birds …

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

J Barlow, F França, TA Gardner, CC Hicks, GD Lennox… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

C Sheard, MHC Neate-Clegg, N Alioravainen… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
An organism's ability to disperse influences many fundamental processes, from speciation
and geographical range expansion to community assembly. However, the patterns and …

Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

BG Freeman, MN Scholer, V Ruiz-Gutierrez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature
increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species …

Habitat amount modulates biodiversity responses to fragmentation

H Zhang, JM Chase, J Liao - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Morphological consequences of climate change for resident birds in intact Amazonian rainforest

V Jirinec, RC Burner, BR Amaral, RO Bierregaard Jr… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Warming from climate change is expected to reduce body size of endotherms, but studies
from temperate systems have produced equivocal results. Over four decades, we collected …

Bird and bat predation services in tropical forests and agroforestry landscapes

B Maas, DS Karp, S Bumrungsri, K Darras… - Biological …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding distribution patterns and multitrophic interactions is critical for managing bat‐
and bird‐mediated ecosystem services such as the suppression of pest and non‐pest …

Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: implications for ecosystem function and conservation

TP Bregman, CH Sekercioglu, JA Tobias - Biological Conservation, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

A long winter for the Red Queen: rethinking the evolution of seasonal migration

BM Winger, GG Auteri, TM Pegan… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper advances an hypothesis that the primary adaptive driver of seasonal migration is
maintenance of site fidelity to familiar breeding locations. We argue that seasonal migration …

Avian diversity: speciation, macroevolution, and ecological function

JA Tobias, J Ottenburghs… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
The origin, distribution, and function of biological diversity are fundamental themes of
ecology and evolutionary biology. Research on birds has played a major role in the history …