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Trait-based indicators of bird species sensitivity to habitat loss are effective within but not across datasets.
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Title: | Trait-based indicators of bird species sensitivity to habitat loss are effective within but not across datasets. |
Authors: | Hatfield, JH Orme, CDL Tobias, JA Banks-Leite, C |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Species' traits have been widely championed as the key to predicting which species are most threatened by habitat loss, yet previous work has failed to detect trends that are consistent enough to guide large-scale conservation and management. Here we explore whether traits and environmental variables predict species sensitivity to habitat loss across two datasets generated by independent avifaunal studies in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, both of which detected a similar assemblage of species, and similar species-specific responses to habitat change, across an overlapping sample of sites. Specifically, we tested whether 25 distributional, climatic, ecological, behavioral and morphological variables predict sensitivity to habitat loss among 196 bird species, both within and across studies, and when data were analysed as occurrence or abundance. We found that 4-9 variables showed high explanatory power within a single study or dataset, but none performed as strong predictors across all datasets. Our results demonstrate that the use of species traits to predict sensitivity to anthropogenic habitat loss can produce predictions that are species- and site-specific and not scalable to whole regions or biomes, and thus should be used with caution. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. |
Issue Date: | 30-Oct-2017 |
Date of Acceptance: | 30-Oct-2017 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/54494 |
DOI: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1646 |
ISSN: | 1051-0761 |
Publisher: | Ecological Society of America |
Start Page: | 28 |
End Page: | 34 |
Journal / Book Title: | Ecological Applications |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Copyright Statement: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hatfield, J. H., Orme, C. D. L., Tobias, J. A. and Banks-Leite, C. (), Trait-based indicators of bird species sensitivity to habitat loss are effective within but not across datasets. Ecol Appl. Accepted Author Manuscript, which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving. |
Sponsor/Funder: | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
Funder's Grant Number: | NE/K016393/1 |
Keywords: | Atlantic Forest birds habitat fragmentation habitat loss response traits species sensitivity transferability 05 Environmental Sciences 06 Biological Sciences 07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences Ecology |
Publication Status: | Published |
Open Access location: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.1646/full |
Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Natural Sciences |