Primates facing climate crisis in a tropical forest hotspot will lose climatic suitable geographical range.

ABSTRACT: Global climate changes affect biodiversity and cause species distribution shifts, contractions, and expansions. Climate change and disease are emerging threats to primates, and approximately one-quarter of primates' ranges have temperatures over historical ones. How will climate changes influence Atlantic Forest primate ranges? We used habitat suitability models and measured potential changes in area and distributions shifts. Climate change expected in 2100 may change the distribution area of Atlantic Forest primates. Fourteen species (74%) are predicted to lose more than 50% of their distribution, and nine species (47%) are predicted to lose more than 75% of their distribution. The balance was negative, indicating a potential future loss, and the strength of the reduction in the distribut

SUBMITTER: Pinto MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9837198 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature