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Decoupled responses of biodiversity facets driven from anuran vulnerability to climate and land-use changes

Author(s): Ceron K; Sales LP; Santana DJ; Pires MM;

Biodiversity loss not only implies the loss of species but also entails losses in other dimensions of biodiversity, such as functional, phylogenetic and interaction diversity. Yet, each of those facets of biodiversity may respond differently to extinctions. Here, we examine how extinction, driven by climate and land-use changes may affect those different ...

Article GUID: 36967645


Identifying climate change refugia for South American biodiversity

Author(s): Sales LP; Pires MM;

Refugia-based conservation strategies offer long-term effectiveness and minimize uncertainty on strategies for climate change adaptation. Here, we use distribution modelling to identify climate change refugia for 617 terrestrial mammals and quantify the role of protected areas in safeguarding these zones across South America. Moist tropical forests locate ...

Article GUID: 36919472


Mutualistic coevolution and community diversity favour persistence in metacommunities under environmental changes

Author(s): Cosmo LG; Sales LP; GuimarĂ£es PR; Pires MM;

Linking local to regional ecological and evolutionary processes is key to understand the response of Earth's biodiversity to environmental changes. Here we integrate evolution and mutualistic coevolution in a model of metacommunity dynamics and use numerical simulations to understand how coevolution can shape species distribution and persistence in la ...

Article GUID: 36629106


The effect of past defaunation on ranges, niches, and future biodiversity forecasts

Author(s): Sales LP; Galetti M; Carnaval A; Monsarrat S; Svenning JC; Pires MM;

Humans have reshaped the distribution of biodiversity across the globe, extirpating species from regions otherwise suitable and restricting populations to a subset of their original ranges. Here, we ask if anthropogenic range contractions since the Late Pleistocene led to an under-representation of the realized niches for megafauna, an emblematic group of ...

Article GUID: 35246902


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