Mapping the Drivers of Climate Change Vulnerability for Australia's Threatened Species.

ABSTRACT: Effective conservation management for climate adaptation rests on understanding the factors driving species' vulnerability in a spatially explicit manner so as to direct on-ground action. However, there have been only few attempts to map the spatial distribution of the factors driving vulnerability to climate change. Here we conduct a species-level assessment of climate change vulnerability for a sample of Australia's threatened species and map the distribution of species affected by each factor driving climate change vulnerability across the continent. Almost half of the threatened species assessed were considered vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: amphibians being the most vulnerable group, followed by plants, reptiles, mammals and birds. Species with more restricted distributi

SUBMITTER: Lee JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4446039 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature