Bird Range Shifts and Innovation Data for Climate Tracking Analysis

5,733 population-level range-shift observations for 1,096 bird species, combined with a global avian innovation dataset. The data, created by cong yu and last updated in April 2026, supports analysis of how behavioural plasticity influences species' ability to track climate change across latitudinal and elevational gradients.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between climate velocity and range-shift velocity based on latitudinal and elevational data.
• Assessing the role of feeding innovation as a behavioural trait in climate-change vulnerability.
• Conducting phylogenetic comparative analyses on global bird species using the provided mixed-effects model framework.
• Testing hypotheses on how landscape heterogeneity and ecological novelty affect climate tracking capacity.

Strengths

• Integrates two large-scale datasets: the BioShifts database and a global avian innovation dataset.
• Contains 5,733 observations across 1,096 species, providing a broad taxonomic sample.
• Analysis uses Bayesian phylogenetic mixed-effects models, a robust statistical approach for comparative data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or taxonomic bias inherent to the source databases.

Provenance

Source

Combined from the BioShifts database and a global avian innovation dataset.

Collection Method

Population-level observations compiled and analyzed with Bayesian phylogenetic mixed-effects models.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 13:25:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global