Researchers have released a study titled <\/span>\u2018Impact of climate change on two high-altitude restricted and endemic flycatchers of the Western Ghats, India.<\/span><\/p>\n The study was conducted on two species endemic to the Western Ghats, namely: <\/span><\/p>\n –<\/strong> Black and-orange Flycatcher (BOF), and <\/span><\/p>\n –<\/strong> Nilgiri Flycatcher(NIF)<\/span><\/p>\n The study’s aim was to determine the current potential suitability and possible responses of the species to future climate change. This was done using the <\/span>MaxEnt<\/i><\/b>algorithm.<\/b><\/p>\n Findings: <\/b>The study has found that these two species could suffer a loss of 31% and 46% of their range respectively by 2050 due to climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n Black-and-orange Flycatcher and Nilgiri Flycatcher are monotypic species<\/strong> endemic to the southern Western Ghats<\/strong> and confined to higher elevations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n BOF prefers the understorey of shola forests, especially among the stunted evergreen forest patches in the sky islands of Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n The NIF is also found above 600 m elevation but more frequently above 1200 m.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, about 75% of the currently suitable areas of both these species lie outside the protected area network in the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n Conservation status<\/strong>:<\/p>\nAbout the study<\/b><\/h5>\n
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\n MaxEnt<\/b> which stands for \u2018maximum entropy modelling\u2019 predicts species\u2019 occurrences by finding the distribution that is most spread out, or closest to uniform while taking into account the limits of the environmental variables of known locations.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n About Black-and-orange Flycatcher(BOF) and Nilgiri Flycatcher(NIF)<\/b><\/h5>\n