The Difference in Bird Communities Using Climate as a Factor in Two Differing Habitats
COMMUNITY ECOLOGICAL PRACTICAL – BIO2011
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Title:
The difference in bird communities using climate as a factor in two differing habitats.
Introduction:
Bird communities are highly vulnerable to changes in climate as a variable. The factor of habitat type is also very important in determining the abundance and diversity of bird communities. Habitat features, elevation and variation in climates is seen to been ecologically important, as these particular three factors in differing combinations create diverse bird communities. Varying climates can cause many changes in bird reproductive cycles, migration patterns and behaviours. Birds are endothermic vertebrate creatures that have a very extreme variety of diversity within the concept of the generalized bird organism. This directly correlates with the fact that differing bird types live and survive in fluctuating climate changes and habitat environments. Temperature and precipitation (rainfall mm) changes are seen to clearly affect bird species in their environment, and these features can be seen to cause disturbances from unsteady weather patterns causing storming, flooding or fires. Climate changes can also cause the introduction of new predators and competitors, causing changes in bird species abundances.
This particular study was facilitated in Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico, United States of America. This region is in a desert setting and was specifically set in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. It is known to be a large breeding and nesting site. The two habitats in this study were the mixed grassland and pinyon-juniper woodland. The mixed grassland habitat contains no elevation and has an array of desert grassland plantation. The pinyon-juniper woodland region is an elevated space with areas of open savannas to other areas of closed forest. The study was necessary to determine the actual effect of climate on bird communities within two separate habitat environments. This is done by
2266264
Title:
The difference in bird communities using climate as a factor in two differing habitats.
Introduction:
Bird communities are highly vulnerable to changes in climate as a variable. The factor of habitat type is also very important in determining the abundance and diversity of bird communities. Habitat features, elevation and variation in climates is seen to been ecologically important, as these particular three factors in differing combinations create diverse bird communities. Varying climates can cause many changes in bird reproductive cycles, migration patterns and behaviours. Birds are endothermic vertebrate creatures that have a very extreme variety of diversity within the concept of the generalized bird organism. This directly correlates with the fact that differing bird types live and survive in fluctuating climate changes and habitat environments. Temperature and precipitation (rainfall mm) changes are seen to clearly affect bird species in their environment, and these features can be seen to cause disturbances from unsteady weather patterns causing storming, flooding or fires. Climate changes can also cause the introduction of new predators and competitors, causing changes in bird species abundances.
This particular study was facilitated in Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico, United States of America. This region is in a desert setting and was specifically set in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. It is known to be a large breeding and nesting site. The two habitats in this study were the mixed grassland and pinyon-juniper woodland. The mixed grassland habitat contains no elevation and has an array of desert grassland plantation. The pinyon-juniper woodland region is an elevated space with areas of open savannas to other areas of closed forest. The study was necessary to determine the actual effect of climate on bird communities within two separate habitat environments. This is done by