Mapping Resilient Landscapes to Climate Change in a Megadiverse Country.

ABSTRACT: The effects of global climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are unevenly distributed in the geographic space. Identifying sites more suitable to sustain biodiversity in a changing climate is essential to both species conservation and restoration strategies at different scales. Here, we map terrestrial climate-resilient sites for biodiversity across Brazil to identify sites with greater chances of providing suitable conditions for species to persist under regional climate change. Our mapping combines spatial metrics based on landscape heterogeneity, a proxy for microclimatic variability, and local connectedness, a measure of connectivity between habitats, to determine landscape resilience, assuming that resilience to climate change will be greater the more heterogeneous t

SUBMITTER: Rosenfield MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12512505 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature