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Climate determinants of breeding and wintering ranges of lesser kestrels in Italy and predicted impacts of climate change

2017

Climate warming would theoretically create conditions for the breeding range expansion of pseudo-steppe Mediterranean and long-distance migrant species and provide the possibility for these to overwinter in the same breeding areas. However, contemporary changes in rainfall regimes might have negative effects on the climate suitability and in turn, shrink species potential range. The lesser kestrel Falco naumanni is highly sensitive to rainfall oscillations and has recently extended its Italian breeding range towards northern latitudes and increasing its wintering records. We modelled the effects of temperature and rainfall on current and future climate suitability for lesser kestrels in bot…

0106 biological sciencesclimate suitabilitywintering range modificationEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyEcology (disciplines)pre-migratory periodrainfallEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Animal Science and ZoologySettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaClimate changeFalco naumannitemperatureBiology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematicclimate changeItalypre-breeding periodbreeding range modification climate change climate suitability Falco naumanni Italy pre-breeding period pre-migratory period temperature rainfall wintering range modificationAnimal Science and Zoologybreeding range modificationEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
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Effects of human disturbance on cave-nesting seabirds: The case of the storm petrel

2015

We tested the effects of human disturbance in two sub-colonies of Mediterranean storm petrel. We conducted three experiments to measure the capacity of the storm petrels to respond to stress. The part of the colony exposed to human disturbance resulted to be habituated and did not show chronic stress related to anthropogenic disturbance.

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