Predicting climate change impacts on poikilotherms using physiologically guided species abundance models.

ABSTRACT: Poikilothermic animals comprise most species on Earth and are especially sensitive to changes in environmental temperatures. Species conservation in a changing climate relies upon predictions of species responses to future conditions, yet predicting species responses to climate change when temperatures exceed the bounds of observed data is fraught with challenges. We present a physiologically guided abundance (PGA) model that combines observations of species abundance and environmental conditions with laboratory-derived data on the physiological response of poikilotherms to temperature to predict species geographical distributions and abundance in response to climate change. The model incorporates uncertainty in laboratory-derived thermal response curves and provides estimates of thermal h

SUBMITTER: Wagner T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10104529 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature