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Climate change forces birds to live at higher and higher altitudes—until there’s nowhere to go
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Sekercioglu, C.H. et al. 2008. Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. Conservation Biology 22(1):140-150.
Harris, G. and S.L. Pimm. 2008. Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. Conservation Biology 22(1):163-171.
Harris, G. and S.L. Pimm. 2008. Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. Conservation Biology 22(1):163-171.
Just seven years ago, climate change wasn’t listed as a potential hazard in Threatened Birds of the World. Now it gets its own heading in the annual book, and with good reason: a new study finds that climate change may trigger the extinction of 30 percent of land bird species by the year 2100.
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