Life history predicts global population responses to the weather in terrestrial mammals.

ABSTRACT: With the looming threat of abrupt ecological disruption due to a changing climate, predicting which species are most vulnerable to environmental change is critical. The life-history of a species is an evolved response to its environmental context, and therefore a promising candidate for explaining differences in climate-change responses. However, we need broad empirical assessments from across the world's ecosystems to explore the link between life history and climate-change responses. Here, we use long-term abundance records from 157 species of terrestrial mammals and a two-step Bayesian meta-regression framework to investigate the link between annual weather anomalies, population growth rates, and species-level life history. Overall, we found no directional effect of temperature or preci

SUBMITTER: Jackson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9307275 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature