Climate change is redistributing marine biodiversity and may reduce the long-term effectiveness of static conservation networks. Threatened marine rays may be particularly vulnerable because many species have slow life histories, limited recovery cap...
Refugia play an important role in contributing to the conservation of species and communities by buffering environmental conditions over time. As large natural landscapes worldwide are declining and are increasingly threatened by extreme events, crit...
Chengiodendron marginatum, an evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the Oleaceae family, represents a critical germplasm resource with considerable potential for novel cultivar breeding. To elucidate the adaptive responses of C. marginatum to climate...
Given that Acer sutchuenense Franch., an endangered maple endemic to China, severely threatened by habitat degradation and climate fluctuations, understanding its spatiotemporal dynamics is crucial for formulating conservation strategies. Herein, cli...
Understanding the capacity of forest tree species to adapt to climate change is of increasing importance for managing forest genetic resources. Through a genomics approach, we modelled spatial variation in climate adaptation within the Australian tem...
Spruce taiga forests in Northeast Asia are of great economic and conservation importance. Continued climate warming may cause profound changes in their distribution. We use prognostic and retrospective species distribution models based on the Random...
Coral reefs around Hainan Island in the northern South China Sea represent a marginal reef system exposed to interacting climatic and anthropogenic stresses. This study used an optimized MaxEnt model, remote-sensing-derived coral reef occurrence data...
Persistent fire refugia, which are forest stands that have survived multiple fires, play an important ecological role in the resilience of mountainous forest ecosystems following disturbances. The loss of numerous refugia patches to large, high-sever...
Fire refugia are unburned and low severity patches within wildfires that contribute heterogeneity that is important to retaining biodiversity and regenerating forest following fire. With increasingly intense and frequent wildfires in the Pacific Nort...
Studying current and future geographic distribution is essential for conserving endangered species such as the Boreal Owl and Eurasian Pygmy Owl. The main aim of this study was to determine the potential distribution of both species in the Balkan Pen...
The study of the dynamics of the European pond turtle’s Emys orbicularis range and distribution as an indicator of climate change in the past, present, and future is most relevant in connection with the protected status of this species in Europ...
In extreme environments, microbial organisms reside in pockets with locally habitable conditions. Micro-climates conducive to the persistence of life in an otherwise inhospitable environment—“refugia”—are spatially restricted...
Climate change is expected to alter the distribution of many threatened mammals, yet national-scale identification of climate refugia and conservation priorities remains limited for South Korea. This study aimed to map current hotspots and future ref...
Climate change poses a great challenge for biodiversity conservation. Several studies exist regarding climate change’s impacts on European plants, yet none has investigated how climate change will affect the extinction risk of the entire endemi...
Climate change may shift species outside of their current climatic tolerances, which can be problematic for oceanic islands with limited options for species migration. Their alpine habitats, which represent islands within islands, are a special conce...
Climate change is altering the geographical distribution and abundance of species. Abundant genetic variation generally indicates a stronger adaptability and evolutionary potentiality, especially in case of sharply changing climates or environments....
Climatic changes during the Pleistocene were responsible for dramatic redistributions of plant species worldwide. On the rugged southern hemisphere island of Tasmania, temperature increases following the last glaciation saw upslope migration of clima...
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two severe challenges that the world is facing. Studying the distribution shifts of species in response to climate change could provide insights into long-term conservation and biodiversity maintenance. Myotis...
Changes in habitat suitability are critical indicators of the ecological impacts of climate change. Syndiclis Hook. f., a rare and endangered genus endemic to montane limestone and cloud forest ecosystems in China, holds considerable ecological and e...
Reef-building corals and coralline algae form the calcium carbonate frameworks that underpin tropical coral reefs, yet in some locations, coral cover has declined by ~50% in recent decades due to marine heatwaves and other stressors. Identifying refu...
Semiliquidambar cathayensis is a special and endangered plant in China, used for traditional Chinese medicine and in landscape applications. Predicting the impact of climate change on the distribution of S. cathayensis is crucial for its protection a...
The relict tree Cercidiphyllum japonicum, a Tertiary paleoendemic with significant ecological and timber value, prefers warm–cool humid climates and acidic soils. Using MaxEnt and ArcGIS, we modeled its distribution under current and future cli...
The Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) model, integrated with ArcGIS (a geographic information system), was employed to project potential species distribution under current conditions and future climate scenarios (SSP1–2.6, SSP2–4.5, SSP5–8.5...
This study uses a scenario-based approach to ask what are the varying impacts to forest extent and biodiversity from sixteen climate change and forest conversion scenario combinations, and what do they suggest about future forest conservation policy...
Symplocos is an ecologically important genus that plays vital roles in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved mountain forests, including contributing to nutrient cycling, providing shelter and habitats for various organisms, and supporting overall plant...
The eastern honeybee (Apis cerana) is a keystone pollinator for native ecosystems and agricultural crops in China. However, its distribution faces significant uncertainty due to accelerating climate change. To quantify these risks and inform manageme...
How species are distributed on Earth depends largely on climate factors. Whenever these environmental conditions change, species tend to shift their distributions to reach more favourable conditions. Distinct sets of species similarly distributed (i....
Forest management traditionally has been based on the expectation of a steady climate. In the face of a changing climate, management requires projections of changes in the distribution of the climatic niche of the major species and strategies for app...
The extremely inhospitable Antarctic ecosystems confine plants and invertebrates to sparse ice-free areas. These species survived for millions of years in isolated refugia where population divergence and differentiation can occur, potentially resulti...
Climate-driven changes in oceanographic conditions are increasingly affecting the distribution of marine species, particularly vulnerable elasmobranchs. The undulate ray, Raja undulata, is a Near Threatened batoid species distributed throughout the n...
Indonesia has a large number of primate diversity where a majority of the species are threatened. In addition, climate change is conservation issues that biodiversity may likely face in the future, particularly among primates. Thus, species-distribut...
The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) is an endangered semifossorial small mammal of grassland/agricultural ecosystems. In the last few decades, the species’ population has declined throughout its range in Europe. The Greek popul...
Juniperus, a genus shaped by long-term climatic and geological processes, thrives in Yunnan but its community structure and future habitat dynamics remain poorly understood. We investigated Juniperus community composition, phylogenetic diversity, pop...
Abies nephrolepis and Picea jezoensis are native Pinaceae trees distributed in high mountainous regions of Northeast Asia (typically above ~1000 m a.s.l. on the Korean peninsula, northeastern China, Sakhalin, and the Russian Far East) and southern bo...
Climate change significantly threatens the survival and distribution of endangered plants. This study quantified current and future patterns of habitat suitability and species richness for legally protected vascular plants in South Korea under two SS...
Data are needed to assess the relationships between urbanization and biodiversity to establish conservation priorities. However, many of these relationships are difficult to fully assess using traditional research methods. To address this gap and eva...
Rhododendron arboreum Sm., an ecologically and culturally important Himalayan tree species and a key species in Himalayan forests, is increasingly threatened by forest degradation, climate change, and habitat fragmentation. However, previous studies...
Carex rupestris is an endangered and rare arctic-alpine element of the Western Carpathian flora. Given the geographically isolated and spatially restricted peripheral ranges of arctic-alpine species, there is a good chance that many species of conser...
Dragonflies are sensitive to climate change due to their special habitat in aquatic and terrestrial environments, especially Pantala flavescens, which have extraordinary migratory abilities in response to climate change on spatio-temporal scales. At...
Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is widely used to predict species distributions and support biodiversity conservation under environmental change, yet its application to Amazonian wetland plants has not been systematically synthesized. We conducted a...
In the harsh Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, invertebrates are currently confined to sparse and restricted ice free areas, where they have survived on multi-million-year timescales in refugia. The limited dispersal abilities of these invertebrate s...
Climate change is reshaping the distribution of forest species globally, yet its effects on the temperate tree genus Carpinus in China remain understudied. This study used an ensemble species distribution modeling framework to predict current and fut...
Endemic species on mountains often have narrow altitudinal ranges and are more threatened at the higher altitudes, especially with climate changes. However, plants could use special microhabitats at the mountain tops as proper places for surviving th...
Camellia luteoflora Li ex Chang is an endangered plant endemic to the East Asian flora with high ornamental value as well as phylogenetic and floristic research value. Predicting the impact of climate change on its distribution and suitable habitat i...
The vulnerability of ecologically important fish species to climate change underscores the need to predict shifts in their distributions and habitat suitability under future climate scenarios. In this study, we modeled the potential distribution rang...
Climate change poses growing threats to Amazonian biodiversity, yet species-specific responses remain poorly understood, particularly in the Colombian Amazon. This study assessed the potential distribution and habitat suitability of eight woody plant...
Global climate change profoundly impacts the geographical distribution patterns and evolutionary dynamics of plants. As a vital ornamental and ecological shrub native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, the wild germplasm resources o...
The Mediterranean Basin is frequently stricken by huge disasters, and it represents an important biodiversity hotspot. Designing a synthetic approach, which is user-friendly with a low cost, that aims to summarize the main climatic factors that deter...
Climate change exacerbates the vulnerability of relict forests. However, plant taxa may buffer extinction risk through range shifts that track suitable habitats or through adjustments in their ecological niches, either via phenotypic plasticity or ev...
In this study, we focused on the bedrock-dependent effects of climate change on terricolous lichen communities along elevational gradients in the Alps. In particular, we contrasted between carbonatic and siliceous bedrock, hypothesizing more favourab...
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