Yesterday we featured a link to some new research out of U.C. Berkeley that discussed how climate change is prompting birds in the Sierra Nevada to move to locations that better suit them. Here's some nice new coverage of that research. We should note again that Audubon California was involved in this research, mostly through the participation of our Senior GIS Scientist William Monahan. This report also does a nice job of highlighting the work of Joseph Grinnell, a biologist whose work in the early 20th Century provided much of the baseline data for this study:
By Garrison Frost
September 15, 2009
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.
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