Climate Change Bird Atlas
Informative status
This webpage will retire in June 2026. The Climate Change Bird Atlas is being replaced by the Forest Ecosystem Atlas. Please click here to visit the new Forest Ecosystem Atlas.
Use the Climate Change Bird Atlas tool to view potential changes in abundance and range for 147 bird species in the East.
Online Resources
People
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Person
Stephen Matthews, PhD
Ecologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/stephen.matthews -
Person
Louis Iverson, PhD
Landscape Ecologist, ret.https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/louis.iverson -
Person
Anantha M. Prasad
Research Ecologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/anantha.prasad -
Person
Matthew Peters
Ecologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/matthew.p.peters
Publications
- Stephen Matthews, Louis Iverson, Anantha M. Prasad, Matthew Peters. 2011. Changes in potential habitat of 147 North American breeding bird species in response to redistribution of trees and climate following predicted climate change
- Anantha M. Prasad, Louis Iverson, Andy Liaw, Andy Liaw. 2006. Newer classification and regression tree techniques: Bagging and Random Forests for ecological prediction
- Louis Iverson, Anantha M. Prasad, Stephen Matthews, Matthew Peters. 2011. Lessons learned while integrating habitat, dispersal, disturbance, and life-history traits into species habitat models under climate change
Last updated February 9, 2026