Reacción a "Reactions: birds lose morphological diversity due to climate change"

The article shows that there will be a greater risk of extinction for the more specialised birds living in rarer habitats, either because of their restricted distribution or their more specific ecological requirements. The more generalist, cosmopolitan and adaptable species will survive.  

The work presented by Dr Emma Hughes and her team provides information to understand that the disappearance of key bird species in the functioning of ecosystems, such as pollinating birds or seed dispersers, could have disastrous consequences for the survival of the plants that these birds pollinate or whose seeds they help to disperse. It also argues that these losses of ecosystem functions could mean that some of the ecosystem services provided by birds could disappear, with human populations also being affected. Furthermore, the article reflects the harsh reality that the loss of morphological and phylogenetic diversity in birds will mean that thousands of years of evolution and adaptation to ecosystems will have disappeared in just a few years, and this irreplaceable genetic heritage will be lost forever. 

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of how the current global crisis of biodiversity loss could lead to the disappearance of ecosystem services provided by birds and generate the homogenisation of avifaunal diversity worldwide, analysing the situation in a wide variety of ecosystems across the planet and assessing the possible loss of morphological and phylogenetic diversity by studying the characters of more than 8,400 bird species.