Integrating climate change and predation risk with wading bird conservation research in North America

In the next century, wading birds will have to deal with the cumulative imp act of climate change, human population growth, and the recovery of avian p redators. Conservation areas, established under former climate conditions a nd when there were fewer people and predators, might be inadequate to maint ain wading bird populations in the future. We assess the potential effect o f climate change and increased predation, and provide hypotheses as a frame work for future work in these areas.