Relative impacts of climate and land-use change on birds in next half-century

Predicting the future for birds in the U.S.? Not as far-fetched as it sounds. Some researchers have worked on this, and their paper is in the excellent online journal PLOS ONE:The Relative Impacts of Climate and Land-use Change on Conterminous United States Bird Species from 2001 to 2075:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112251