Rapid adjustment of bird community compositions to local climatic variations and its functional consequences

Global Change Biology
Pierre GaüzèreVincent Devictor

Abstract

The local spatial congruence between climate changes and community changes has rarely been studied over large areas. We proposed one of the first comprehensive frameworks tracking local changes in community composition related to climate changes. First, we investigated whether and how 12 years of changes in the local composition of bird communities were related to local climate variations. Then, we tested the consequences of this climate-induced adjustment of communities on Grinnellian (habitat-related) and Eltonian (function-related) homogenization. A standardized protocol monitoring spatial and temporal trends of birds over France from 2001 to 2012 was used. For each plot and each year, we used the spring temperature and the spring precipitations and calculated three indices reflecting the thermal niche, the habitat specialization, and the functional originality of the species within a community. We then used a moving-window approach to estimate the spatial distribution of the temporal trends in each of these indices and their congruency with local climatic variations. Temperature fluctuations and community dynamics were found to be highly variable in space, but their variations were finely congruent. More interestingly, the ...Continue Reading

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Sep 15, 2016·Global Change Biology·Pierre GaüzèreVincent Devictor
Jan 11, 2017·Global Change Biology·Tom H OliverDavid B Roy
Feb 21, 2019·Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America·L Jay RobertsSam Veloz
Jan 13, 2019·Global Change Biology·Antoine Becker-ScarpittaMark Vellend
Apr 10, 2019·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Luc BarbaroFons van der Plas
Nov 23, 2018·Bioscience·Conor WaldockAmanda E Bates
Mar 20, 2019·Global Change Biology·Tom R BishopMark P Robertson

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