Biobanks, offspring fitness and the influence of developmental plasticity in conservation biology

WV Holt - Animal Reproduction, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Mitigation of the widely known threats to the world's biodiversity is difficult, despite the
strategies and actions proposed by international agreements such as the United Nations …

Long-term changes in populations of rainforest birds in the Australia Wet Tropics bioregion: A climate-driven biodiversity emergency

SE Williams, A de la Fuente - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Many authors have suggested that the vulnerability of montane biodiversity to climate
change worldwide is significantly higher than in most other ecosystems. Despite the …

Cryptic declines of small, cold-water specialists highlight potential vulnerabilities of headwater streams as climate refugia

BR Hossack, MT LeMoine, EB Oja, LA Eby - Biological conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing temperatures and climate-driven disturbances like wildfire are a growing threat to
many species, including cold-water specialists. Montane areas and cold streams are often …

Predicted alteration of vertebrate communities in response to climate‐induced elevational shifts

A de la Fuente, A Krockenberger… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is driving species to migrate to novel areas as current environments
become unsuitable. As a result, species distributions have shifted uphill in montane …

Potential range shifts and climatic refugia of rupicolous reptiles in a biodiversity hotspot of South Africa

MA Petford, GJ Alexander - Environmental Conservation, 2021 - cambridge.org
Climate change is causing the geographical ranges of some species to track suitable
conditions. Habitat specialists, range-restricted species and species with limited dispersal …

Hydrodynamics and Aquatic Vegetation Drive Spatial Patterns of Environmental DNA in Ponds

SR Mayne, JA Manning, SM Henderson… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling is a powerful method for detecting aquatic species at
low densities. However, eDNA may remain close to the source in lentic systems, decreasing …

Fine-scale drivers of extinction risk: tadpole occupancy dynamics of the Table Mountain Ghost Frog (Heleophryne rosei)

J Weeber, R Altwegg, J Tarrant, KA Tolley - African Zoology, 2023 - journals.co.za
Over the last four decades much progress has been made towards recognising causes of
global amphibian declines, but knowledge of fine scale drivers, particularly for specialised …

Seasonal variation in patterns of anuran diversity along a subtropical elevational gradient

V Carvalho‐Rocha, CA Peres… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although many studies have described spatial patterns along elevational gradients,
only a handful have investigated their temporal dynamics, which remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Climate and Land Use Changes Impact the Future of European Amphibian Functional Diversity

K Proios, DE Michailidou, M Lazarina, MA Tsianou… - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Climate and land use changes drive shifts in species distributions, causing variations in
species richness. Yet the influence of shifts in species distributions on functional diversity at …

Efectos del cambio global sobre la dinámica poblacional de la fauna de montaña

D Gutiérrez - Ecosistemas, 2021 - revistaecosistemas.net
Las montañas ocupan el 27% de la superficie terrestre y están presentes en casi todos sus
biomas. Son sistemas que albergan una elevada proporción de especies endémicas y de …