Racing against change: understanding dispersal and persistence to improve species' conservation prospects.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is contributing to the widespread redistribution, and increasingly the loss, of species. Geographical range shifts among many species were detected rapidly after predictions of the potential importance of climate change were specified 35 years ago: species are shifting their ranges towards the poles and often to higher elevations in mountainous areas. Early tests of these predictions were largely qualitative, though extraordinarily rapid and broadly based, and statistical tests distinguishing between climate change and other global change drivers provided quantitative evidence that climate change had already begun to cause species' geographical ranges to shift. I review two mechanisms enabling this process, namely development of approaches for accounting for dispersal that c

SUBMITTER: Kerr JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739496 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature