Shifts in bird ranges and conservation priorities in China under climate change

distributed in North Xinjiang, North China, and Northeast China would move northwards, and those in South Qinghai would move to the Tibetan Plateau mountains in the south (Fig 2A1). After subdividing the direction of movement, we found that approximately more than half of the species (547/1042) would move to the northeast with long average shift distances, and a quarter of species would move to the northwest (284/1042), with short average distances. Fig 1. Histograms of distribution range change for bird species in 2070. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240225.g001 PLOS ONE Bird range changes call for innovative conservation in China PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240225 October 8, 2020 7 / 20