Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0872-3

Gaps in geographic coverage of species abundance data, especially in the tropics, make determining species’ responses to climate change difficult. Modelling a dataset on global waterbird abundance shows abundance declines in the tropics and increases at higher latitudes when temperatures increase.