The Adaptive Responses of Wildlife to Climate Change
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2022) | Viewed by 670
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptation (behavioural, physiological and genetic); individual response heterogeneity, activity and energetics; sensitive periods; life-history vulnerabilities; weather variability
Interests: behavioural and physiological plasticity in changing environments; impact of environmental conditions on communicative signal evolution; fitness trade-offs; behavioural, physiological and genetic adaptations to pathogen avoidance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rapid climate change stresses populations, species, and ecosystems, risking regional extinctions and global biodiversity loss. Nevertheless, animals are evolved to have some capacity to respond to variability in their environment. For this Special Issue, we welcome articles focusing on behavioural, physiological, and genetic adaptability to climate change and ensuing environmental change. We invite both conceptual and applied contributions, where understanding the intrinsic mechanisms underlying species adaptability is vital to future policy and management. Particularly, we encourage work looking at individual response heterogeneity; i.e., whether some members of a population exhibit strategies better aligned with changed conditions. Articles addressing (in)ability to cope with increased weather variability, and not just warming trends, are of especial interest. We also welcome articles investigating the indirect, or cascade, effects of climate change on animal populations; for example, effects on hibernation strategies, parasites and disease epidemiology, or habitat and food availability. Ultimately, we intend this Special Issue to move the dial from purely associative studies toward those describing mechanistic responses that provide insight into defined risk factors, shifting the paradigm from alarm to action.
Dr. Chris Newman
Prof. Christina Buesching
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaption to climate change
- individual response heterogeneity
- sensitive periods
- life-cycle vulnerabilities
- weather variability
- management responses to climate change
