Effects of global change on bird and beetle populations in boreal forest landscape: an assemblage dissimilarity analysis

Aim 
Despite an increasing number of studies highlighting the impacts of climate change on boreal species,  the main factors that will drive changes in species assemblages remain ambiguous.  We study how species community composition would change following anthropogenic and natural disturbances. We determine the main drivers of assemblage dissimilarity for bird and beetle communities.
Location
Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada.
Methods
We quantify two climate-induced pathways based on direct and indirect effects on species occurrence under different harvest management scenarios. The direct climate effects illustrate the impact of climate variables while the indirect effects are reflected through habitat-based climate change. We develop empirical models to predict the distribution of more than 100 species over the next century. We analyze the regional and the latitudinal species assemblage dissimilarity by decomposing it into 'balanced variation in species occupancy and occurrence' and 'occupanc..., ,