Niche-based approach to explore the impacts of environmental disturbances on biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Globally, species are increasingly at risk from compounding threatening processes, an increasingly prominent driver of which is environmental disturbances. To facilitate effective conservation efforts following such events, methods that evaluate potential impacts across multiple species and provide landscape-scale information are needed to guide targeted responses. Often, the geographic overlap between a disturbance and species' distribution is calculated and then used as a proxy for potential impact. However, such methods do not account for the important influence of environmental heterogeneity throughout species' ranges. To address this shortcoming, we quantified the effects of environmental disturbances on species' environmental niche space. Using the Australian 2019 and 2020 Black Summ

SUBMITTER: Sopniewski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11588999 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature