Decomposing the spatial and temporal effects of climate on bird populations in northern European mountains

Autor: Ute Bradter, Alison Johnston, Wesley M. Hochachka, Alaaeldin Soultan, Jon E. Brommer, Elie Gaget, John Atle Kålås, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Åke Lindström, Sirke Piirainen, Diego Pavón‐Jordán, Tomas Pärt, Ingar Jostein Øien, Brett K. Sandercock
Přispěvatelé: University of St Andrews. Statistics, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Biosciences
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
spatiotemporal pattern
ENVELOPE MODELS
QH301 Biology
Population Dynamics
Zoology and botany: 480 [VDP]
HA
forecast horizon
Static forecasts
SDG 13 - Climate Action
HA Statistics
General Environmental Science
SDG 15 - Life on Land
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
Temperature
space-for-time substitution
Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507)
anticipatory forecasts
Climate decomposition
dynamic forecasts
PRECIPITATION
1181 Ecology
evolutionary biology

ABUNDANCE
Seasons
Spatio-temporal forecasting
Spatio-temporal pattern
Anticipatory forecasts
Climate Research
Climate Change
Birds
Dynamic forecasts
QH301
SUITABILITY
Environmental Chemistry
DISTRIBUTIONS
Animals
spatiotemporal forecasts
Species distribution models
GLOBAL CHANGE
Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 [VDP]
1172 Environmental sciences
Ecosystem
WEATHER
Forecast horizon
AVAILABILITY
SHIFTS
DAS
SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS
Space-for-time substitution
climate decomposition
static forecasts
Zdroj: Global Change Biology
Popis: Funding: The Swedish Bird Survey was supported by grants from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, with additional financial and logistic support from the Regional County Boards (Länsstyrelsen). The surveys were carried out within the framework of the strategic research environment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC). The Norwegian breeding bird monitoring (Norsk hekkefuglovervåking) was financed by the Norwegian Environment Agency and the Ministry of Climate and Environment. Our research was funded through the 2017-2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme with financial support from the Research Council of Norway (295767), the Swedish Research Council FORMAS (2018-02440, 2018-02441), the Academy of Finland (323527, 326327, 326338) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (ICER-1927646). The relationships between species abundance or occurrence versus spatial variation in climate are commonly used in species distribution models (SDMs) to forecast future distributions. Under "space-for-time-substitution", the effects of climate variation on species are assumed to be equivalent in both space and time. Two unresolved issues of space-for-time-substitution are the time period for species' responses and also the relative contributions of rapid- versus slow reactions in shaping spatial and temporal responses to climate change. To test the assumption of equivalence, we used a new approach of climate decomposition to separate variation in temperature and precipitation in Fennoscandia into spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal components over a 23-year period (1996-2018). We compiled information on land cover, topography and six components of climate for 1756 fixed route surveys and we modelled annual counts of 39 bird species breeding in the mountains of Fennoscandia. Local abundance of breeding birds was associated with the spatial components of climate as expected, but the temporal and spatio-temporal climatic variation from the current and previous breeding seasons were also important. The directions of the effects of the three climate components differed within and among species, suggesting that species can respond both rapidly and slowly to climate variation and that the responses represent different ecological processes. Thus, the assumption of equivalent species' response to spatial and temporal variation in climate was seldom met in our study system. Consequently, for the majority of our species, space-for-time substitution may only be applicable once the slow species' responses to a changing climate have occurred. Whereas forecasts for the near future need to accommodate the temporal components of climate variation. However, appropriate forecast horizons for space-for-time substitution are rarely considered and may be difficult to reliably identify. Accurately predicting change is challenging because multiple ecological processes affect species distributions at different temporal scales. Publisher PDF
Databáze: OpenAIRE