Over the past few decades, land-use and climate change have led to substantial range
contractions and species extinctions. Even more dramatic changes to global land cover are …

Human-induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of
biological processes and patterns. Historic climate change is known to have caused shifts in …

Limitations imposed on species ranges by the climatic, ecological, and physiological effects
of elevation are important determinants of extinction risk. We modeled the effects of …

Birds are among the most widely studied organisms on earth and represent an important
indicator group for learning about the effects of climate change–particularly in regard to the …

One of the most pressing questions in ecology and conservation centers on disentangling
the relative impacts of concurrent global change drivers, climate and land‐use/land‐cover …

We used three approaches to assess potential effects of climate change on birds of the
Northeast. First, we created distribution and abundance models for common bird species …

Humans have moved species away from their native ranges since the Neolithic, but
globalization accelerated the rate at which species are being moved. We fitted more than …

Mounting evidence shows that organisms have already begun to respond to global climate
change. Advances in our knowledge of how climate shapes species distributional patterns …

Climate change may drastically alter patterns of species distributions and richness, but
predicting future species patterns in occurrence is challenging. Significant shifts in …

Animal populations have undergone substantial declines in recent decades. These declines
have occurred alongside rapid, human‐driven environmental change, including climate …