Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

Manes, Stella, Costello, Mark J., Beckett, Heath, Debnath, Anindita, Devenish-Nelson, Eleanor, Grey, Kerry-Anne, Jenkins, Rhosanna, Khan, Tasnuva Ming, Kiessling, Wolfgang, Krause, Cristina, Maharaj, Shobha S., Midgley, Guy F., Price, Jeff, Talukdar, Gautam and Vale, Mariana M. (2021) Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance. Biological Conservation, 257. ISSN 0006-3207

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Abstract

Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta-analytical approach, we analysed >8000 risk projections of the projected impact of climate change on 273 areas of exceptional biodiversity, including terrestrial and marine environments. We found that climate change is projected to negatively impact all assessed areas, but endemic species are consistently more adversely impacted. Terrestrial endemics are projected to be 2.7 and 10 times more impacted than non-endemic natives and introduced species respectively, the latter being overall unaffected by climate change. We defined a high risk of extinction as a loss of >80% due to climate change alone. Of endemic species, 34% and 46% in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and 100% and 84% of island and mountain species were projected to face high extinction risk respectively. A doubling of warming is projected to disproportionately increase extinction risks for endemic and non-endemic native species. Thus, reducing extinction risks requires both adaptation responses in biodiversity rich-spots and enhanced climate change mitigation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	biodiversity hotspots,extinction risk,global-200 ecoregions,introduced species,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,nature and landscape conservation,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 May 2021 00:14
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2024 11:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79971
DOI:	10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109070

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