Lowland biotic attrition revisited: body size and variation among climate change 'winners' and 'losers'.

ABSTRACT: The responses of lowland tropical communities to climate change will critically influence global biodiversity but remain poorly understood. If species in these systems are unable to tolerate warming, the communities-currently the most diverse on Earth-may become depauperate ('biotic attrition'). In response to temperature changes, animals can adjust their distribution in space or their activity in time, but these two components of the niche are seldom considered together. We assessed the spatio-temporal niches of rainforest mammal species in Borneo across gradients in elevation and temperature. Most species are not predicted to experience changes in spatio-temporal niche availability, even under pessimistic warming scenarios. Responses to temperature are not predictable by phylogeny but do

SUBMITTER: Brodie JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5310037 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature