Modeling Bird Responses to Drought Handout

Modeling Bird Responses to Drought Handout
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Modeling Species‐Specific and Scale‐Dependent Bird Responses to Drought


Grassland birds are persistently declining and negatively affected by droughts, but the variability in species’ responses at different scales is not well known. Researchers from Oklahoma State University paired data on bird occurrence and drought indicators to study how drought intensity alters bird distributions in the Great Plains.

Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/modeling-bird-responses-drought

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