Sweating the small stuff: Microclimatic exposure and species habitat associations inform climate vulnerability in a grassland songbird community

Assessment of species vulnerability to climate change has been limited by the mismatch between coarse macroclimate data and the fine scales at which species select habitat. Habitat mediates climate conditions, and fine-scale habitat features may permit species to exploit favorable microclimates, but habitat preferences can also constrain their ability to do so. We leveraged fine-resolution models of near-surface temperature and humidity in grasslands to understand how microclimates affect climatic exposure and demographics in a grassland bird community. We asked: 1) Do species select favorable nest-site microclimates? 2) Do habitat preferences limit the ability of species to access microclimates? 3) What are the demographic consequences of microclimatic exposure? We found limited evidence that grassland birds select cooler microclimates, which may buffer eggs and nestlings from extreme heat. Instead, many species appeared constrained by vegetation preferences. While facultative generali..., , , # Sweating the small stuff: Microclimatic exposure and species habitat associations inform climate vulnerability in a grassland songbird community

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r6x](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r6x)

The following repository includes processed data and code necessary to repeat analyses and create primary figures for the manuscript:

Bernath-Plaisted, J.S., C.A. Ribic, and B. Zuckerberg. Sweating the small stuff: microclimatic exposure and habitat associations inform climate vulnerability in a grassland songbird community

## Description of the data and file structure

This repository includes the following files:

**Scripts**

renv (LOCK file): this file contains records of all packages and versions used in this project. This file can be used with the package renv ([https://rstudio.github.io/renv/](https://rstudio.github.io/renv/)) to restore the correct package versions to a project working directory using the function renv: : restore().  

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