The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness

• Published in: Biodiversity and conservation Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 613 - 627
• Main Authors: Quilodrán, Claudio S., Sandvig, Erik M., Aguirre, Francisco, de Aguilar, Juan Rivero, Barroso, Omar, Vásquez, Rodrigo A., Rozzi, Ricardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Annual precipitation; Anthropogenic factors; Atmospheric precipitations; Biodiversity; Biological monitoring; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biosphere; Biotic factors; Bird impact; Birds; Boreal forests; Climate; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climatic conditions; conservation areas; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Ecology; ecoregions; Ecosystem components; Environmental policy; Extreme weather; Forest and plantation biodiversity; forest birds; Forest communities; Forests; Heterogeneity; Horns; Human influences; Laboratories; Life Sciences; maritime climate; Meteorology, Maritime; Original Paper; Precipitation; Precipitation variability; Rain; Rain and rainfall; Rainfall; South America; Species richness; Cape Horn; South America; Hygric niche; Climate change; Precipitation gradient; Forest birds; Species richness; Sub-antarctic ecoregion
• ISSN: 0960-3115; 1572-9710
• DOI: 10.1007/s10531-022-02353-5

A natural laboratory is a place supporting the conditions for hypothesis testing under non-anthropogenic settings. Located at the southern end of the Magellanic sub-Antarctic ecoregion in southwestern South America, the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (CHBR) has one of the most extreme rainfall gradient...