Four climate change scenarios for Gypsophila bermejoi G. Lopez (Caryophyllaceae) to address whether bioclimatic and soil suitability will overlap in the future.

ABSTRACT: Climate change has altered the global distribution of many species. Accordingly, we have assessed here the potential shift in the distribution of Gypsophila bermejoi G. López under distinct scenarios of future climate change, this being a species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. For strict gypsophiles, climatic changes affecting their potential area of distribution could be critical if the new range is not overlapped with suitable soils. Thus, the narrow bioclimatic niche and the endemic nature of this plant could make this species particularly vulnerable to climate change. We used the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) method to study the potential distribution of this taxon under four different scenarios of climate change, pin-pointing relevant changes in the potential distribution of this plant

SUBMITTER: de Luis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6564006 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature