Re-evaluating model assumptions suggests that Australian birds are more tolerant of heat and aridity than predicted: a response to Conradie et al. (2020)

Hector Pacheco-Fuentes; Christine E Cooper; Philip C Withers; Simon C Griffith

doi:10.1093/conphys/coac010

Re-evaluating model assumptions suggests that Australian birds are more tolerant of heat and aridity than predicted: a response to Conradie et al. (2020)

Conserv Physiol. 2022 Mar 10;10(1):coac010. doi: 10.1093/conphys/coac010. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Hector Pacheco-Fuentes¹, Christine E Cooper², Philip C Withers³, Simon C Griffith¹

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¹ School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.
² School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102 Australia.
³ School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.

Abstract

Conradie et al. (2020) recently modelled the vulnerability of Australian arid birds to a changing climate. While the approach used by Conradie et al. (2020) is valuable, we argue that key assumptions in their study are poorly supported and the risks of a changing climate to arid zone avifauna are consequently overstated.

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