Species-specific traits affect bird species' susceptibility to global change
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10472954" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10472954 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/23:73622552
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=r27AuJPDof" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=r27AuJPDof</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-023-01883-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00114-023-01883-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Species-specific traits affect bird species' susceptibility to global change
Original language description
The current ecological crisis has risen extinction rates to similar levels of ancient mass extinctions. However, it seems to not be acting uniformly across all species but affecting species differentially. This suggests that species' susceptibility to the extinction process is mediated by specific traits. Since understanding this response mechanism at large scales will benefit conservation effort around the world, we used the IUCN global threat status and population trends of 8281 extant bird species as proxies of the extinction risk to identify the species-specific traits affecting their susceptibility to extinction within the biogeographic regions and at the global scale. Using linear mixed effect models and multinomial models, we related the global threat status and the population trends with the following traits: migratory strategy, habitat and diet specialization, body size, and generation length. According to our results and independently of the proxy used, more vulnerable species are sedentary and have larger body size, longer generation time, and higher degree of habitat specialization. These relationships apply globally and show little variation across biogeographic regions. We suggest that such concordant patterns might be caused either by a widespread occurrence of the same threats such as habitat modification or by a uniform capacity of some traits to reflect the impact of different local threats. Regardless of the cause of this pattern, our study identified the traits that affect species' response capability to the current ecological crisis. Conservation effort should focus on the species with trait values indicating the limited response capacity to overcome this crisis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-00648S" target="_blank" >GA20-00648S: Integrating migration patterns, phenology, year-round habitat use and demography to understand drivers of population dynamics in migratory birds</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Science of Nature : Die Naturwissenschaften
ISSN
0028-1042
e-ISSN
1432-1904
Volume of the periodical
110
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
54
UT code for WoS article
001100768200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85176387469