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Open AccessLocal colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability
Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species’ ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts alongside other putative drivers ...
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A multi-scale landscape approach to understand dispersal of the mistletoe by birds in Mediterranean pine forests
Seed dispersal by birds plays a crucial role in structuring landscape dynamics. The dispersal process has been extensively studied at local scales; however, landscape scale approaches are scarce. The wide avai...
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Open AccessLong-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds
Around fifteen thousand fieldworkers annually count breeding birds using standardized protocols in 28 European countries. The observations are collected by using country-specific and standardized protocols, va...
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Open AccessPopulation responses of bird populations to climate change on two continents vary with species’ ecological traits but not with direction of change in climate suitability
Climate change is a major global threat to biodiversity with widespread impacts on ecological communities. Evidence for beneficial impacts on populations is perceived to be stronger and more plentiful than tha...
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Are protected areas preserving ecosystem services and biodiversity? Insights from Mediterranean forests and shrublands
Protected areas (PAs) are essential for biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services (ES), representing 15% of the earth’s surface and targeted to increase until 17% by 2020. But previous ...
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Open AccessContrasting impacts of precipitation on Mediterranean birds and butterflies
The climatic preferences of the species determine to a large extent their response to climate change. Temperature preferences have been shown to play a key role in driving trends in animal populations. However...
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Indicators of the Effects of the Urban Greening on Birds: The Case of Barcelona
Building and maintaining an urban green infrastructure, which can be understood as a network of urban parks, private gardens or forest areas, can potentially contribute to reverse the trend of biodiversity los...
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Fire management, climate change and their interacting effects on birds in complex Mediterranean landscapes: dynamic distribution modelling of an early-successional species—the near-threatened Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata)
The current challenge in a context of major environmental changes is to anticipate the responses of species to future landscape and climate scenarios. In the Mediterranean basin, climate change is one the most...
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Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt
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Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale
An analysis of annual variations in ecological community composition in several thousand plots distributed across Europe over two decades reveals that European birds and butterflies do not keep up with tempera...
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Assessing regional variation in conservation value using fine-grained bird atlases
In this study we developed a simple quantitative method to assist in the decision making process of the landscape planning by integrating information of species occurrence and their individual IUCN extinction ...
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Postfire forest management and Mediterranean birds: the importance of the logging remnants
Fire is a crucial element needed to understand the biodiversity patterns of forest landscapes in most Mediterranean countries. However, little is known about the quantitative responses of bird communities to p...
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Assessing the response of open-habitat bird species to landscape changes in Mediterranean mosaics
In Mediterranean landscapes, wildfires and land abandonment lead to major landscape modifications primarily by favouring the presence of open, shrub-like habitats. At present, we know very little of how these ...
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Bird assemblages in forest fragments within Mediterranean mosaics created by wild fires
The role of habitat heterogeneity as a key factor in determining species pools in habitat mosaics has been acknowledged, but we still know little on the relative importance of the different ecological processe...
