Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, like desert annual plants or temporary pool animals, may be particularly at risk. Although some could tolerate environmental changes by building-up banks of propagules (seeds or eggs) that buffer against catastrophes, climate change will threaten this resilience mechanism if higher temperatures reduce propagule survival. Using a crustacean model species from temporary waters, we quantified experimentally the survival and dormancy of propagules under anticipated climate change and used these demographic parameters to simulate long term population dynamics. RESULTS:By exposing p

SUBMITTER: Pinceel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5782365 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature