Projected bioclimatic distributions in Nearctic Bovidae signal the potential for reduced overlap with protected areas.

ABSTRACT: Assumptions about factors such as climate in shaping species' realized and potential distributions underlie much of conservation planning and wildlife management. Climate and climatic change lead to shifts in species distributions through both direct and indirect ecological pressures. Distributional shifts may be particularly important if range overlap is altered between interacting species, or between species and protected areas. The cattle family (Bovidae) represents a culturally, economically, and ecologically important taxon that occupies many of the world's rangelands. In contemporary North America, five wild bovid species inhabit deserts, prairies, mountains, and tundra from Mexico to Greenland. Here, we aim to understand how future climate change will modify environmental cha

SUBMITTER: John C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature