Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

TL;DR: The ecological functions of birds are reviewed, they are linked to ecosystem services and research priorities for understanding avian contributions to ecosystem functioning are outlined.

TL;DR: A general framework for characterizing the ecological and societal consequences of biodiversity loss and applying it to the global avifauna is presented and projections indicate that by 2100, 6–14% of all bird species will be extinct, and 7–25% (28–56% on oceanic islands) will be functionally extinct.

TL;DR: This study presents a framework for assessing three dimensions of climate change vulnerability, namely sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity, and finds that high concentration areas for species with traits conferring highest sensitivity and lowest adaptive capacity differ from those of highly exposed species.

TL;DR: This model that combined elevational ranges, four Millennium Assessment habitat-loss scenarios, and an intermediate estimate of surface warming of 2.8 degrees C, projected a best guess of 400-550 landbird extinctions, and that approximately 2150 additional species would be at risk of extinction by 2100.

TL;DR: The data indicate that the best determinant of the persistence of understory insectivorous birds in small fragments is the ability to disperse through deforested countryside habitats, which contradicts the initial hypothesis that the decline of insectivory birds in forest fragments is caused by impoverished invertebrate prey base in fragments.