Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios.

@article{citeulike:724114, abstract = {Global climates are changing rapidly, with unexpected consequences. Because elements of biodiversity respond intimately to climate as an important driving force of distributional limitation, distributional shifts and biodiversity losses are expected. Nevertheless, in spite of modelling efforts focused on single species or entire ecosystems, a few preliminary surveys of fauna-wide effects, and evidence of climate change-mediated shifts in several species, the likely effects of climate change on species' distributions remain little known, and fauna-wide or community-level effects are almost completely unexplored. Here, using a genetic algorithm and museum specimen occurrence data, we develop ecological niche models for 1,870 species occurring in Mexico and project them onto two climate surfaces modelled for 2055. Although extinctions and drastic range reductions are predicted to be relatively few, species turnover in some local communities is predicted to be high (>40\% of species), suggesting that severe ecological perturbations may result.}, address = {Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA. town@ukans.edu}, author = {Peterson, A. T. and Ortega-Huerta, M. A. and Bartley, J. and S\'{a}nchez-Cordero, V. and Sober\'{o}n, J. and Buddemeier, R. H. and Stockwell, D. R.}, citeulike-article-id = {724114}, doi = {10.1038/416626a}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {climate-change, distribution-modeling, garp, nopdf}, month = {April}, number = {6881}, pages = {626--629}, posted-at = {2008-12-02 02:04:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/416626a}, volume = {416}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:724114 L3 - citeulike-article-id:724114 N2 - Global climates are changing rapidly, with unexpected consequences. Because elements of biodiversity respond intimately to climate as an important driving force of distributional limitation, distributional shifts and biodiversity losses are expected. Nevertheless, in spite of modelling efforts focused on single species or entire ecosystems, a few preliminary surveys of fauna-wide effects, and evidence of climate change-mediated shifts in several species, the likely effects of climate change on species' distributions remain little known, and fauna-wide or community-level effects are almost completely unexplored. Here, using a genetic algorithm and museum specimen occurrence data, we develop ecological niche models for 1,870 species occurring in Mexico and project them onto two climate surfaces modelled for 2055. Although extinctions and drastic range reductions are predicted to be relatively few, species turnover in some local communities is predicted to be high (>40% of species), suggesting that severe ecological perturbations may result. IS - 6881 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 AD - Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA. town@ukans.edu EP - 629 TI - Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios. VL - 416 SP - 626 KW - climate-change KW - distribution-modeling KW - garp KW - nopdf AU - Peterson, AT AU - Ortega-Huerta, MA AU - Bartley, J AU - Sánchez-Cordero, V AU - Soberón, J AU - Buddemeier, RH AU - Stockwell, DR PY - 2002/04/11/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/416626a ER -