Case Study

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

To improve scientific understanding of species-specific and time scale-dependent responses to drought, researchers from Oklahoma State University used data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and the Standard Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) to determine how species-specific occupancy shifts in areas experiencing drought across different time scales, and whether drought alters bird distribution.

Location Oklahoma

Year

2022

Details

Hazards

Drought

Shifting Species, Habitats, and Ecosystems

Assets

Natural Areas and Wildlife

Sources

USFWS—U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Funding & Building Capacity

This project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University, and the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.