Authors
Katherine E Selwood, Rohan H Clarke, Shaun C Cunningham, Hania Lada, Melodie A McGeoch, Ralph Mac Nally
Publication date
2015/11
Journal
Journal of Animal Ecology
Volume
84
Issue
6
Pages
1700-1710
Description
- Climate change alters the frequency and severity of extreme events, such as drought. Such events will be increasingly important in shaping communities as climate change intensifies. The ability of species to withstand extreme events (resistance) and to recover once adverse conditions abate (resilience) will determine their persistence.
- We estimated the resistance and resilience of bird species during and after a 13‐year drought (the ‘Big Dry’) in floodplain forests in south‐eastern Australia.
- We conducted bird surveys at the beginning and end of the Big Dry, and after the abrupt end to the drought (the ‘Big Wet’), to evaluate species‐specific changes in reporting rates among the three periods. We assessed changes in bird‐breeding activity before and after the Big Wet to estimate demographic resilience based on breeding.
- Between the start and the end of the Big Dry (1998 vs. 2009), 37 of 67 species declined …
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