Species-specific traits mediate avian demographic responses under past climate change
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Anticipating species’ responses to environmental change is a pressing mission in biodiversity conservation. Despite decades of research investigating how climate change may affect population sizes, historical context is lacking, and the traits that mediate demographic sensitivity to changing climate remain elusive. We use whole-genome sequence data to reconstruct the demographic histories of 263 bird species over the past million years and identify networks of interacting morphological and life history traits associated with changes in effective population size (Ne) in response to climate warming and cooling. Our results identify direct and indirect effects of key traits representing dispersal, reproduction and survival on long-term demographic responses to climate change, thereby highlighting traits most likely to influence population responses to ongoing climate warming.
Date Issued
2023-06-01
Date Acceptance
2023-03-30
Citation
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023, 7 (6), pp.862-872
ISSN
2397-334X
Publisher
Nature Research
Start Page
862
End Page
872
Journal / Book Title
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Volume
7
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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Subjects
ACCURACY
ADAPTATION
Ecology
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
EVOLUTION
Evolutionary Biology
FRAMEWORK
INFERENCE
LIFE
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS
POPULATION HISTORY
Science & Technology
TREE
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2023-04-27