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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
卷 37, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14087
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Amazon fauna; Anthropocene museum; biodiversity forecasting; biogeography; climate change adaptation; conservation prioritization; ecological trade-offs; forest relicts; international policies; species distribution modeling
Refugia-based conservation is effective in minimizing uncertainty in climate change adaptation strategies. The study used distribution modelling to identify refugia for 617 terrestrial mammals in South America and examined the role of protected areas in providing refugia. The results showed that high-elevation moist tropical forests concentrated the highest local diversity of species refugia. However, a significant number of refugia were not within protected areas, highlighting the need for enhanced conservation efforts. Rating: 8/10.
Refugia-based conservation offers long-term effectiveness and minimize uncertainty on strategies for climate change adaptation. We used distribution modelling to identify climate change refugia for 617 terrestrial mammals and to quantify the role of protected areas (PAs) in providing refugia across South America. To do so, we compared species potential distribution across different scenarios of climate change, highlighting those regions likely to retain suitable climatic conditions by year 2090, and explored the proportion of refugia inside PAs. Moist tropical forests in high-elevation areas with complex topography concentrated the highest local diversity of species refugia, although regionally important refugia centers occurred elsewhere. Andean-Amazon forests contained climate change refugia for more than half of the continental species' pool and for up to 87 species locally (17 x 17 km(2) grid cell). The highlands of the southern Atlantic Forest also included megadiverse refugia for up to 76 species per cell. Almost half of the species that may find refugia in the Atlantic Forest will do so in a single region-the Serra do Mar and Serra do Espinhaco. Most of the refugia we identified, however, were not in PAs, which may contain <6% of the total area of climate change refugia, leaving 129-237 species with no refugia inside the territorial limits of PAs of any kind. Our results reveal a dismal scenario for the level of refugia protection in some of the most biodiverse regions of the world. Nonetheless, because refugia tend to be in high-elevation, topographically complex, and remote areas, with lower anthropogenic pressure, formally protecting them may require a comparatively modest investment.
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