Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 768 - 783
• Main Authors: Trew, Brittany T., Maclean, Ilya M. D., McGill, Brian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Anthropogenic factors; Biodiversity; Biodiversity hot spots; biodiversity hotspots; biogeography; Climate; Climate change; Climate models; Climate variability; Climatic data; conservation; Environmental impact; Heterogeneity; Human influences; landscapes; meteorological data; microclimate; microrefugia; mountains; Physiological responses; Prediction models; risk; Risk assessment; Speciation; species distribution models; Temporal resolution; Variability; vulnerability

Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area, but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. There is growing recognition that spatio‐temporal patterns of climate...