A trait-based assessment of southern African arid-zone birds' vulnerability to climate change

Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina

(2022) Flavio Quintana et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Adaptive variation in the upper limits of avian body temperature

(2022) Marc T. Freeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming

(2021) Susan J Cunningham et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Thermoregulation in desert birds: scaling and phylogenetic variation in heat tolerance and evaporative cooling

(2021) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mortality among birds and bats during an extreme heat event in eastern South Africa

(2021) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Too hot to handle? Behavioural plasticity during incubation in a small, Australian passerine

(2021) Lynda L. Sharpe et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Why Are Species’ Traits Weak Predictors of Range Shifts?

(2021) Steven R. Beissinger et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Terrestrial biodiversity threatened by increasing global aridity velocity under high-level warming

(2021) Hao Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change vulnerability of cetaceans in Macaronesia: Insights from a trait-based assessment

(2021) A. Sousa et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Regularly drinking desert birds have greater evaporative cooling capacity and higher heat tolerance limits than non‐drinking species

(2020) Zenon J. Czenze et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The beak and unfeathered skin as heat radiators in the Southern Ground-hornbill

(2020) Andries K. Janse van Vuuren et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid-zone bird

(2020) T. M. F. N. van de Ven et al.   OECOLOGIA

Extreme and variable environmental temperatures are linked to reduction of social network cohesiveness in a highly social passerine

(2020) Margaux Rat et al.   OIKOS

High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2020) Amanda R. Bourne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sublethal fitness costs of chronic exposure to hot weather vary between sexes in a threatened desert lark

(2020) Ryno Kemp et al.   Emu-Austral Ornithology

Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change

(2020) Lindsey L Thurman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century

(2019) Shannon R. Conradie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events

(2019) Lyubing Zhang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Assessing the vulnerability of Africa's freshwater fishes to climate change: A continent-wide trait-based analysis

(2019) Elizabeth A. Nyboer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bird vulnerability to climate and land use changes in the Brazilian Cerrado

(2019) Fábio Júlio Alves Borges et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The costs of keeping cool: behavioural trade-offs between foraging and thermoregulation are associated with significant mass losses in an arid-zone bird

(2019) T. M. F. N. van de Ven et al.   OECOLOGIA

Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa

(2019) Alan TK Lee et al.   OSTRICH

Cooling requirements fueled the collapse of a desert bird community from climate change

(2019) Eric A. Riddell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reaction norms for heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity do not vary across a climatic gradient in a passerine bird

(2019) Matthew J. Noakes et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

When to start and when to stop: Effects of climate on breeding in a multi‐brooded songbird

(2019) Lei Lv et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Weighing the cost: the impact of serial heatwaves on body mass in a small Australian passerine

(2019) Lynda Sharpe et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Australian songbird body size tracks climate variation: 82 species over 50 years

(2019) Janet L. Gardner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A novel framework for selecting general circulation models based on the spatial patterns of climate

(2019) Mohamed Salem Nashwan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Heat dissipation behaviour of birds in seasonally hot arid‐zones: are there global patterns?

(2019) Nicholas B. Pattinson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Extreme operative temperatures in exposed microsites used by roosting rufous-cheeked nightjar (Caprimulgus rufigena): implications for water balance under current and future climate conditions

(2018) Ryan Sean O'Connor et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change

(2018) Vicencio Oostra et al.   Nature Communications

Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa

(2018) Alan TK Lee et al.   OSTRICH

The presence of artificial water points structures an arid-zone avian community over small spatial scales

(2018) Salamatu Abdu et al.   OSTRICH

Climate change vulnerability assessment of species

(2018) Wendy B. Foden et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Seasonal Metabolic Acclimatization Varies in Direction and Magnitude among Populations of an Afrotropical Passerine Bird

(2017) Matthew J. Noakes et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration

(2017) Thomas P. Albright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of temperature on offspring provisioning in a cooperative breeder

(2016) Elizabeth M. Wiley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Hot and bothered: Using trait-based approaches to assess climate change vulnerability in reptiles

(2016) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The evolution of the avian bill as a thermoregulatory organ

(2016) Glenn J. Tattersall et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Thermal tolerance may cause sexual segregation in sexually dimorphic species living in hot environments

(2015) Juan C. Alonso et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Relative sensitivity to climate change of species in northwestern North America

(2015) Michael J. Case et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Phenological plasticity will not help all species adapt to climate change

(2015) Anne Duputié et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

(2015) C J Murren et al.   HEREDITY

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in South Africa's national parks

(2015) Nicola J. van Wilgen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Climate-related spatial and temporal variation in bill morphology over the past century in Australian parrots

(2015) Daniel J. E. Campbell-Tennant et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines

(2015) M. C. Whitfield et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird?

(2015) Susan J Cunningham et al.   OSTRICH

The impact of high temperatures on foraging behaviour and body condition in the Western Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen dorsalis

(2015) Emily K Edwards et al.   OSTRICH

Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

(2015) Michela Pacifici et al.   Nature Climate Change

A framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change: a case study of the Australian elapid snakes

(2014) Abigail L. Cabrelli et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Matching species traits to projected threats and opportunities from climate change

(2014) Raquel A. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Prioritizing Species by Conservation Value and Vulnerability: A New Index Applied to Species Threatened by Sea-Level Rise and Other Risks in Florida

(2014) Joshua S. Reece et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Risk assessment for Iberian birds under global change

(2013) Maria Triviño et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Adaptive thermoregulation during summer in two populations of an arid-zone passerine

(2013) B. Smit et al.   ECOLOGY

Dynamic size responses to climate change: prevailing effects of rising temperature drive long-term body size increases in a semi-arid passerine

(2013) Janet L. Gardner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity

(2013) Per Alström et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Climate Change Vulnerability of Native and Alien Freshwater Fishes of California: A Systematic Assessment Approach

(2013) Peter B. Moyle et al.   PLoS One

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

(2013) Wendy B. Foden et al.   PLoS One

Temperatures in Excess of Critical Thresholds Threaten Nestling Growth and Survival in A Rapidly-Warming Arid Savanna: A Study of Common Fiscals

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

The costs of keeping cool in a warming world: implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid-zone bird

(2012) Katherine L. du Plessis et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of California's At-Risk Birds

(2012) Thomas Gardali et al.   PLoS One

Parental cooperation in an extreme hot environment: natural behaviour and experimental evidence

(2011) Monif AlRashidi et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Adaptive Thermoregulation in Endotherms May Alter Responses to Climate Change

(2011) J. G. Boyles et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Geographical Variation in Bill Size across Bird Species Provides Evidence for Allen’s Rule

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A comparative analysis of vigilance in birds

(2010) Guy Beauchamp   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The influence of a hot environment on parental cooperation of a ground-nesting shorebird, the Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus

(2010) Monif AlRashidi et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Can traits predict species' vulnerability? A test with farmland passerines in two continents

(2010) M. J. O. Pocock   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

(2009) A. E. McKechnie et al.   Biology Letters

An integrated risk assessment for climate change: analysing the vulnerability of sharks and rays on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

(2009) ANDREW CHIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shifting latitudinal clines in avian body size correlate with global warming in Australian passerines

(2009) J. L. Gardner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions

(2008) Rita Covas et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Barlow's Lark: a new species in the Karoo Lark Certhilauda albescens complex of southwest Africa

(2008) PETER G. RYAN et al.   IBIS

Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change

(2008) Stephen E Williams et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY