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Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities
Species extinctions and colonizations in response to land cover change often occur with time lags rather than instantaneously, leading to extinction debts and colonization credits. These debts and credits can lead to erroneous predictions of future biodiversity. Recent attempts to measure debts and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913367/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01653-3 |
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author | Haddou, Yacob Mancy, Rebecca Matthiopoulos, Jason Spatharis, Sofie Dominoni, Davide M. |
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description | Species extinctions and colonizations in response to land cover change often occur with time lags rather than instantaneously, leading to extinction debts and colonization credits. These debts and credits can lead to erroneous predictions of future biodiversity. Recent attempts to measure debts and credits have been limited to small geographical areas and have not considered multiple land cover types, or the directionality of land cover change. Here we quantify the relative contribution of past and current landscapes on the current effective number of species of 2,880 US bird communities, explicitly measuring the response of biodiversity to increases and decreases in five land cover types. We find that the current effective number of species is still largely explained by the past landscape composition (legacy effect), depending on the type, magnitude and directionality of recent land cover change. This legacy effect leads to widespread extinction debts and colonization credits. Specifically, we reveal debts across 52% of the United States, particularly in recently urbanized areas, and colonization credits in the remaining 48%, which are primarily associated with grassland decrease. We conclude that biodiversity policy targets risk becoming rapidly obsolete unless past landscapes are considered and debts and credits accounted for. |
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spelling | pubmed-89133672022-03-25 Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities Haddou, Yacob Mancy, Rebecca Matthiopoulos, Jason Spatharis, Sofie Dominoni, Davide M. Nat Ecol Evol Article Species extinctions and colonizations in response to land cover change often occur with time lags rather than instantaneously, leading to extinction debts and colonization credits. These debts and credits can lead to erroneous predictions of future biodiversity. Recent attempts to measure debts and credits have been limited to small geographical areas and have not considered multiple land cover types, or the directionality of land cover change. Here we quantify the relative contribution of past and current landscapes on the current effective number of species of 2,880 US bird communities, explicitly measuring the response of biodiversity to increases and decreases in five land cover types. We find that the current effective number of species is still largely explained by the past landscape composition (legacy effect), depending on the type, magnitude and directionality of recent land cover change. This legacy effect leads to widespread extinction debts and colonization credits. Specifically, we reveal debts across 52% of the United States, particularly in recently urbanized areas, and colonization credits in the remaining 48%, which are primarily associated with grassland decrease. We conclude that biodiversity policy targets risk becoming rapidly obsolete unless past landscapes are considered and debts and credits accounted for. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-02-10 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8913367/ /pubmed/35145265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01653-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022, corrected publication 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Haddou, Yacob Mancy, Rebecca Matthiopoulos, Jason Spatharis, Sofie Dominoni, Davide M. Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title | Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title_full | Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title_fullStr | Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title_full_unstemmed | Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title_short | Widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in United States breeding bird communities |
title_sort | widespread extinction debts and colonization credits in united states breeding bird communities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913367/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01653-3 |
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