1. Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species–climate relationships in mountain birds.
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Brambilla, Mattia, Bettega, Chiara, Delgado, Maria M., De Gabriel‐Hernando, Miguel, Päckert, Martin, Arlettaz, Raphaël, Dirren, Sebastian., Fontanilles, Philippe, Gil, Juan Antonio, Herrmann, Mylene, Hille, Sabine, Korner‐Nievergelt, Fränzi, Pedrini, Paolo, Resano‐Mayor, Jaime, Schano, Christian, and Scridel, Davide
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BIRD populations , *WINTER , *HABITATS , *TROPICAL dry forests , *BIRD population estimates - Abstract
Keywords: distribution; ecological niche; Montifringilla nivalis; mountains; seasonality; snowfinch EN distribution ecological niche Montifringilla nivalis mountains seasonality snowfinch 1 5 5 10/07/22 20220901 NES 220901 Linking organism distribution to climate is key to understanding factors determining species occurrence and evaluating the potential impacts of ongoing climate change. Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species-climate relationships in mountain birds However, we are convinced that the reason for such a finding is not an effective niche expansion in the species, but a question of methods - the inclusion of non-representative occurrence records in the analyses of the species' thermal niche -, neglecting crucial facts about the species' ecology. According to the authors, such a wider niche should be related to a "dramatic niche evolution event", leading to a niche expansion dated perhaps 2.6 mya ago, which allowed this species to occupy warmer areas in the western Palearctic, such as southern Europe. [Extracted from the article]
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