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.