Desert-adapted species are vulnerable to climate change: Insights from the warmest region on Earth

Desert-adapted species are vulnerable to climate change: Insights from the warmest region on Earth

Climate change is eroding biodiversity and conservation efforts have focused on species’ potential responses to those changes. Biological traits associated with sensitivity and adaptive capacities may contribute in identifying a species vulnerability to climate change. Desert-living species could be...

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Main Authors: Cândida Gomes Vale, José Carlos Brito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
Subjects:
Adaptive capacity
Exposure
Functional groups
Magnitude
Sensitivity
Velocity of climate change
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989415000852

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