Functional traits, land-use change and the structure of present and future bird communities in tropical forests
- Tim Newbold ,
- Jörn PW Scharlemann ,
- Stuart HM Butchart ,
- Çaugan H Şekerciouglu ,
- Lucas Joppa ,
- Rob Alkemade ,
- Drew Purves
Global Ecology and Biogeography | , Vol 23(10): pp. 1073-1084
Habitat loss continues to cause loss of biodiversity. To quantify the effects of land-use change on the diversity and composition of ecological communities – in terms of functional groups – we make modelled estimates of the impact of past and future (to 2050) land-use change on the overall diversity and dietary guild structure of tropical forest bird communities.