Temporal analysis of GBIF data reveals the restructuring of communities following climate change.

ABSTRACT: Multiple studies revealed an effect of climate change on biodiversity by investigating long-term changes in species distributions and community composition. However, many taxa do not benefit from systematic long-term monitoring programmes, leaving gaps in our current knowledge of climate-induced community turnover. We used data extracted from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to characterize community reorganization under climate change for nine animal taxonomic groups (ants, bats, bees, birds, butterflies, earthworms, frogs, rodents and salamanders), which, for most of them, had never been studied before in this regard. Using a presence-only community temperature index (CTI), reflecting the relative proportion of warm- and cold-adapted species, we tested whether and how species

SUBMITTER: Lajeunesse A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107267 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature