Berriozabal‐Islas, Christian;
Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota;
Ramírez‐Bautista, Aurelio;
Becerra‐López, Jorge L.;
Nieto‐Montes de Oca, Adrián
Effect of climate change in lizards of the genusXenosaurus(Xenosauridae) based on projected changes in climatic suitability and climatic niche conservatism
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Titel:
Effect of climate change in lizards of the genusXenosaurus(Xenosauridae) based on projected changes in climatic suitability and climatic niche conservatism
Beteiligte:
Berriozabal‐Islas, Christian;
Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota;
Ramírez‐Bautista, Aurelio;
Becerra‐López, Jorge L.;
Nieto‐Montes de Oca, Adrián
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2018
Erschienen in:
Ecology and Evolution, 8 (2018) 14, Seite 6860-6871
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1002/ece3.4200
ISSN:
2045-7758
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AbstractAccelerated climate change represents a major threat to the health of the planet's biodiversity. Particularly, lizards of the genusXenosaurusmight be negatively affected by this phenomenon because several of its species have restricted distributions, low vagility, and preference for low temperatures. No study, however, has examined the climatic niche of the species of this genus and how their distribution might be influenced by different climate change scenarios. In this project, we used a maximum entropy approach to model the climatic niche of 10 species of the genusXenosaurusunder present and future suitable habitat, considering a climatic niche conservatism context. Therefore, we performed a similarity analysis of the climatic niche between each species of the genusXenosaurus. Our results suggest that a substantial decrease in suitable habitat for all species will occur by 2070. Among the most affected species,X. tzacualtipantecuswill not have suitable conditions according to its climatic niche requirements andX. phalaroanthereonwill lose 85.75% of its current suitable area. On the other hand, we found low values of conservatism of the climatic niche among species. Given the limited capacity of dispersion and the habitat specificity of these lizards, it seems unlikely that fast changes would occur in the distribution of these species facing climate change. The low conservatism in climatic niche we found inXenosaurussuggests that these species might have the capacity to adapt to the new environmental conditions originated by climate change.