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Birds retreating from climate change, deforestation in Honduras cloud forests: Bird diversity shifts upslope in tropical mountainous terrain
- September 12, 2018
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Cloud forests are not immune to very down-to-earth problems of climate change and deforestation. A 10-year study of bird populations in Cusuco National Park, Honduras, shows that the peak of bird diversity in this mountainous park is moving higher in elevation. Additional land protection, unfortunately, may not be enough to reverse the trend, driven in part by globally rising temperatures.
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"Birds retreating from climate change, deforestation in Honduras cloud forests: Bird diversity shifts upslope in tropical mountainous terrain", MachPrinciple, September 12, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Birds-retreating-from-climate-change-deforestation-in-Honduras-cloud-forests-Bird-diversity-shifts-upslope-in-tropical-mountainous-terrain
