Where and why are species' range shifts hampered by unsuitable landscapes?

ABSTRACT: There is widespread concern that species will fail to track climate change if habitat is too scarce or insufficiently connected. Targeted restoration has been advocated to help species adapt, and a "conductance" metric has been proposed, based on simulation studies, to predict effective habitat configurations. However, until now there is very little empirical evidence on how the configuration of habitat is affecting expansion at species' cool range margins. We analysed the colonisation events that have occurred in continuously monitored trap locations for 54 species of southerly distributed moths in Britain between 1985 and 2011. We tested whether the time until colonisation was affected by attributes of each species, and of intervening landcover and climate between the trap and the baseli

SUBMITTER: Hodgson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature