Sea-level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes.

Autor: Rosencranz JA; Western Ecological Research Center U.S. Geological Survey San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station Vallejo California.; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability University of California Los Angeles California., Thorne KM; Western Ecological Research Center U.S. Geological Survey San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station Vallejo California., Buffington KJ; Western Ecological Research Center U.S. Geological Survey San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station Vallejo California., Takekawa JY; Suisun Resource Conservation District Suisun City California., Hechinger RF; Marine Science Institute University of California Santa Barbara California.; Marine Biology Research Division Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla California., Stewart TE; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara California.; Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Illinois., Ambrose RF; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability University of California Los Angeles California.; Department of Environmental Health Sciences University of California Los Angeles California., MacDonald GM; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability University of California Los Angeles California.; Department of Geography University of California Los Angeles California., Holmgren MA; Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration University of California Santa Barbara California., Crooks JA; Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Imperial Beach California., Patton RT; Avian Research Associates Coronado California., Lafferty KD; Marine Science Institute University of California Santa Barbara California.; Western Ecological Research Center c/o Marine Science Institute U.S. Geological Survey University of California Santa Barbara California.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology and evolution [Ecol Evol] 2018 Jul 22; Vol. 8 (16), pp. 8115-8125. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jul 22 (Print Publication: 2018).
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4196
Abstrakt: Sea-level rise (SLR) impacts on intertidal habitat depend on coastal topology, accretion, and constraints from surrounding development. Such habitat changes might affect species like Belding's savannah sparrows ( Passerculus sandwichensis beldingi ; BSSP), which live in high-elevation salt marsh in the Southern California Bight. To predict how BSSP habitat might change under various SLR scenarios, we first constructed a suitability model by matching bird observations with elevation. We then mapped current BSSP breeding and foraging habitat at six estuarine sites by applying the elevation-suitability model to digital elevation models. To estimate changes in digital elevation models under different SLR scenarios, we used a site-specific, one-dimensional elevation model (wetland accretion rate model of ecosystem resilience). We then applied our elevation-suitability model to the projected digital elevation models. The resulting maps suggest that suitable breeding and foraging habitat could decline as increased inundation converts middle- and high-elevation suitable habitat to mudflat and subtidal zones. As a result, the highest SLR scenario predicted that no suitable breeding or foraging habitat would remain at any site by 2100 and 2110. Removing development constraints to facilitate landward migration of high salt marsh, or redistributing dredge spoils to replace submerged habitat, might create future high salt marsh habitat, thereby reducing extirpation risk for BSSP in southern California.
Databáze: MEDLINE