Climate change may threaten habitat suitability of threatened plant species within Chinese nature reserves.

ABSTRACT: Climate change has the potential to alter the distributions of threatened plant species, and may therefore diminish the capacity of nature reserves to protect threatened plant species. Chinese nature reserves contain a rich diversity of plant species that are at risk of becoming more threatened by climate change. Hence, it is urgent to identify the extent to which future climate change may compromise the suitability of threatened plant species habitats within Chinese nature reserves. Here, we modelled the climate suitability of 82 threatened plant species within 168 nature reserves across climate change scenarios. We used Maxent modelling based on species occurrence localities and evaluated climate change impacts using the magnitude of change in climate suitability and the degree of overla

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4911960 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature