Life history trade-off moderates model predictions of diversity loss from climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change can trigger species range shifts, local extinctions and changes in diversity. Species interactions and dispersal capacity are important mediators of community responses to climate change. The interaction between multispecies competition and variation in dispersal capacity has recently been shown to exacerbate the effects of climate change on diversity and to increase predictions of extinction risk dramatically. Dispersal capacity, however, is part of a species' overall ecological strategy and are likely to trade off with other aspects of its life history that influence population growth and persistence. In plants, a well-known example is the trade-off between seed mass and seed number. The presence of such a trade-off might buffer the diversity loss predicted by models with

SUBMITTER: Moor H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5433747 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature