Climate change increases threat to plant diversity in tropical forests of Central America and southern Mexico.

Global biodiversity is negatively affected by anthropogenic climate change. As species distributions shift due to increasing temperatures and precipitation fluctuations, many species face the risk of extinction. In this study, we explore the expected trend for plant species distributions in Central...

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Main Authors: Miguel A Ortega, Luis Cayuela, Daniel M Griffith, Angélica Camacho, Indiana M Coronado, Rafael F Del Castillo, Blanca L Figueroa-Rangel, William Fonseca, Cristina Garibaldi, Daniel L Kelly, Susan G Letcher, Jorge A Meave, Luis Merino-Martín, Víctor H Meza, Susana Ochoa-Gaona, Miguel Olvera-Vargas, Neptalí Ramírez-Marcial, Fernando J Tun-Dzul, Mirna Valdez-Hernández, Eduardo Velázquez, David A White, Guadalupe Williams-Linera, Rakan A Zahawi, Jesús Muñoz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297840&type=printable