Higher predicted climate-change vulnerability for spring-dwelling freshwater biota.

ABSTRACT: Environmental change threatens freshwater biodiversity through altered temperature and precipitation patterns. Available data is frequently insufficient to determine impacts at the species level leading to misinterpreted species' vulnerability. Conversely, phylogenetic relationships, current distributions and ecological traits of the caddisfly subfamily Drusinae are well known. Thus, species distribution models (SDMs) were set up for 47 Drusinae species to assess individual and trait-specific climate change (CC) vulnerability. Species were grouped by larval feeding guild, stream zonation preference and level of endemism. Models were calibrated with predictors describing climate, topography and geology at a spatial resolution of 1 km² and were projected for five general circulati

SUBMITTER: Kuemmerlen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12712645 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature