Have bird distributions shifted along an elevational gradient on a tropical mountain?
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An upward shift in elevation is one of the most conspicuous species responses to climate change. Nevertheless, downward shifts and, apparently, the absences of response have also been recently reported. Given the growing evidence of multiple responses of species distributions due to climate change and the paucity of studies in the tropics, we evaluated the response of a montane bird community to climate change, without the confounding effects of land‐use change. To test for elevational shifts, we compared the distribution of 21 avian species in 1998 and 2015 using occupancy models. The historical data set was based on point counts, whereas the contemporary data set was based on acoustic monitoring. We detected a similar number of species in historical (36) and contemporary data sets (33). We show an overall pattern of no significant change in range limits for most species, although there was a significant shift in the range limit of eight species (38%). Elevation limits shifted mostly upward, and this pattern was more common for upper than lower limits. Our results highlight the variability of species responses to climate change and illustrate how acoustic monitoring provides an easy and powerful way to monitor animal populations along elevational gradients.
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Since 1998, 8 of 33 Luquillo forest bird species and 10 of 12 resident frog species have undergone elevational shifts.
“Since 1998, 8 of 33 Luquillo forest bird species (124) and 10 of 12 resident frog species (125) have undergone elevational shifts.”
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Luquillo forest birds and frogs are known to exhibit elevational range shifts similar to those encountered on other tropical mountains.
“However, Luquillo forest birds and frogs are known to exhibit elevational range shifts similar to those encountered on other tropical mountains.”
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- Authors
- Campos‐Cerqueira, M., Arendt, W. J., Wunderle, J. M., & Aide, T. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras (PR)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Campos‐Cerqueira, Marconi
- Venue
- Ecology and Evolution
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-10-20
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 9914-9924
- ISSN
- 2045-7758 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5723601
- OpenAlex
- W2767019095
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 78
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- FWCI
- 3.29
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- journal article
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- en
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- Ecology and Evolution (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- Funders
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (8933/13‐8)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecological Modeling › Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- climate change, altitudinal range shift, mountain birds, tropical mountains, species distribution, range limits, upward range shift, acoustic monitoring, occupancy models, point counts, bird communities
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