Extinction risk from climate change
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...Climate change, for example, is thought to represent perhaps the biggest threat to global biodiversity (Thomas et al. 2004; Malcolm et al. 2006), yet we know surprisingly little about how changes in climate translate into changes in local selective pressures and how these, in turn, influence the demographic responses of populations (Reed, Schindler & Waples 2010)....
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...Climate change, for example, is thought to represent perhaps the biggest threat to global biodiversity (Thomas et al. 2004; Malcolm et al. 2006), yet we know surprisingly little about how changes in climate translate into changes in local selective pressures and how these, in turn, influence the…...
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...It is a broad assumption that is commonly used, and represents two opposing extremes of how climate change may affect species ranges, based only on the dispersal abilities of species (Thomas et al., 2004; Thuiller et al., 2005)....
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...Climate change may lead to a shift of suitable ranges to higher altitudes and/or poleward (e.g., McCarty, 2001; Walther et al., 2002), loss of native species (Sala et al., 2000; Thuiller et al., 2005a), or even extinction (Thomas et al., 2004)....
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...Thomas et al. (2004) indicated that an alarming number of species may lose a part of their range and consequently become extinct....
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...In this process, local extinctions may occur and populations may become highly fragmented (Thomas et al., 2004)....
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...Several important climate change studies generated predictions with respect to taxonomic groups (e.g. Thomas et al., 2004; Araújo et al., 2006)....
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...However, it is usual for future climate change studies to cluster their results by taxa (Araújo et al., 2006) or species are simply grouped into a single dataset (Thomas et al., 2004)....
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...Matching phenology with future climatic conditions will also constitute one of the main pressures for bat populations, especially for example if temperature-driven gestation times become out of synchrony with food abundance (Sanz et al., 2003; Thomas et al., 2004)....
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