Projected northward shifts in eastern red-backed salamanders due to changing climate.

ABSTRACT: Many species' distributions are being impacted by the acceleration of climate change. Amphibians in particular serve numerous ecosystem functions and are useful indicators of environmental change. Understanding how their distributions have been impacted by climate change and will continue to be impacted is thus important to overall ecosystem health. Plethodon cinereus (Eastern Red-Backed Salamander) is a widespread species of lungless salamander (Plethodontidae) that ranges across northeastern North America. To better understand future potential lungless salamander range shifts, we quantify environmental favorability, the likelihood of membership in a set of sites where environmental conditions are favorable for a species, for P. cinereus in multiple time periods, and examine

SUBMITTER: Hedrick BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10133384 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature