A framework for the identification of hotspots of climate change risk for mammals

摘要: As rates of global warming increase rapidly, identifying species at risk decline due to climate impacts and the factors affecting this have become key challenges in ecology conservation biology. Here we present a framework for assessing three components climate-related species: vulnerability, exposure hazard. We used relationship between observed response change set intrinsic traits (e.g., weaning age) extrinsic precipitation seasonality within geographic range) predict, respectively, vulnerability all data-sufficient terrestrial non-volant mammals (3953 species). Combining information with hazard (the magnitude projected identified hotspots from that includes western Amazon basin, south-western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania, South Africa, Yunnan province China, mountain chains Papua-New Guinea. Our identifies priority areas monitoring effects on directing mitigation actions biodiversity. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.