Large variability in response to future climate and land-use changes among Chinese Theaceae species.

ABSTRACT: Theaceae is an important family in the phylogeny of angiosperm in China, which are potentially threatened by future changes in climatic and land use conditions. Therefore, understanding and predicting the isolated and combined effects of these two global change factors on Theaceae species is crucial for biodiversity conservation. Here, we assessed the isolated and combined effects of climate and land use change on the distribution shifts of 95 Theaceae species under different future scenarios by comparing projections of three model configurations: (1) dynamics climate and constant land use variables; (2) constant climate and dynamics land use variables; and (3) dynamics climate and dynamics land use variables. We find that all the three types of models predicted range contractions for most

SUBMITTER: Tang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9666714 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature