Potential distribution of endemic lizards from Brazilian restingas: The present announcing the end.

ABSTRACT: The restinga habitats are coastal psammophilous environments, with only 0.47% of the original area remaining in Brazil. This environment embraces at least 36 known species of lizards, 7 of them being endemic. Besides direct anthropogenic impacts, climate change raises new cautions on Brazilian restingas-endemic lizards conservation. We evaluated the current and future potential distribution of the endemic lizards from Brazilian restingas, considering different climate change scenarios. We hypothesized shifts in the potential distribution of the restinga-endemic lizards. We conducted ecological niche modeling to predict the potential distribution of Brazilian restingas-endemic lizards. Here, we used an ensemble of three modeling algorithms (Bioclim, GLM, and SVM). In predicting the e

SUBMITTER: Andrade H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11578648 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature