ArticleScience advances2025
Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Evolving conservation: The role of unconventional approaches to restore contemporary vertebrate populations and genomic biodiversity.The Journal of heredity · 2026Review
- Long-read nanopore shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing for river biodiversity, wildlife, pollution, and environmental health monitoring.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Forest Degradation and Weather Jointly Affect Early-Life Development in a Tropical Understory Bird.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Changing Rainfall Drives Locally Asynchronous Reproduction of Tropical Birds via Modular Trophic Pathways.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Narrow thresholds of canopy disturbance determine the microclimate buffering potential of tropical forests.iScience · 2026Article
- Selective logging weakly influences species co-occurrence in a community of tropical understorey birds.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Increases in humidity will intensify lethal hyperthermia risk for birds occupying humid lowlands.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Stable understory microclimates within undisturbed rainforests are often considered refugia against climate change. However, this assumption contrasts with emerging evidence of Neotropical bird population declines in intact rainforests. We assessed the vulnerability of resident rainforest birds to climatic variability, focusing on dry season severity characterized by hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall. Analyzing 4264 individual bird captures over 27 years, we found that harsher Amazonian dry seasons significantly reduced apparent survival for 24 of 29 species, with longer-lived species being more strongly affected. Our model predicted that a 1°C increase in average dry season temperature would reduce the mean apparent survival of the understory bird community by 63%. These findings directly link climate change to declining bird survival in the Amazon, challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions.
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