Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities

Species responding differently to climate change form ‘transient communities’, communities with constantly changing species composition due to colonization and extinction events. Our goal is to disentangle the mechanisms of response to climate change for terrestrial species in these transient commun...

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Published inBiodiversity and conservation Vol. 30; no. 11; pp. 2885 - 2906
Main Authors Schippers, Peter, Abarca, Euridice Leyequien, Verboom, Jana, Wamelink, G. W. Wieger, Vos, Claire C., de Boer, Willem F., Harvey, Jeffrey A., Essens, Tijl, Grashof-Bokdam, Carla J., WallisDeVries, Michiel F., Cobben, Marleen M. P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2021
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Assisted migration
Biodiversity
Biological diversity conservation
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Climate change
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
Climate effects
Colonization
Community composition
Conservation
Conservation Biology/Ecology
Ecology
Geographical distribution
Global temperature changes
Life Sciences
Management
Mass extinction theory
Mass extinctions
Protected species
Review Paper
Species composition
Species extinction
Vulnerability
Wildlife conservation
Mobility
Interactions
Extinction
Dispersal
Greenhouse gas
Adaptability
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Summary:Species responding differently to climate change form ‘transient communities’, communities with constantly changing species composition due to colonization and extinction events. Our goal is to disentangle the mechanisms of response to climate change for terrestrial species in these transient communities and explore the consequences for biodiversity conservation. We review spatial escape and local adaptation of species dealing with climate change from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. From these we derive species vulnerability and management options to mitigate effects of climate change. From the perspective of transient communities, conservation management should scale up static single species approaches and focus on community dynamics and species interdependency, while considering species vulnerability and their importance for the community. Spatially explicit and frequent monitoring is vital for assessing the change in communities and distribution of species. We review management options such as: increasing connectivity and landscape resilience, assisted colonization, and species protection priority in the context of transient communities.
ISSN:0960-3115
1572-9710
DOI:10.1007/s10531-021-02241-4