2008 OCT 27 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, "Twenty-five-year population trends of 42 bird species rare as breeders in the UK were examined in relation to changes in climatic suitability simulated using climatic envelope models."

  "The effects of a series of potential 'nuisance' variables were also assessed. A statistically significant positive correlation was found across species between population trend and climate suitability trend," wrote R.E. Green and colleagues, University of Cambridge ...read more

  2008 OCT 27 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "Species responses to climate change may be influenced by changes in available habitat, as well as population processes, species interactions and interactions between demographic and landscape dynamics. Current methods for assessing these responses fail to provide an integrated view of these influences because they deal with habitat change or population dynamics, but rarely both," scientists in Australia report ...read more

  2008 OCT 27 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research published in the journal Biology Letters, "Pioneering efforts to predict shifts in species distribution under climate change used simple models based on the correlation between contemporary environmental factors and distributions. These models make predictions at coarse spatial scales and assume the constancy of present correlations between environment and distribution. ...read more