An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is a major threat to global biodiversity that will produce a range of new selection pressures. Understanding species responses to climate change requires an interdisciplinary perspective, combining ecological, molecular and environmental approaches. We propose an applied integrated framework to identify populations under threat from climate change based on their extent of exposure, inherent sensitivity due to adaptive and neutral genetic variation and range shift potential. We consider intraspecific vulnerability and population-level responses, an important but often neglected conservation research priority. We demonstrate how this framework can be applied to vertebrates with limited dispersal abilities using empirical data for the bat Plecotus austriacus. We use ecological

SUBMITTER: Razgour O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849758 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature