Conserving biodiversity under climate change: the rear edge matters
HAMPE, Arndt
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] [CSIC]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] [CSIC]
HAMPE, Arndt
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] [CSIC]
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] [CSIC]
Language
en
Article de revue
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Ecology Letters. 2005, vol. 8, n° 5, p. 461-467
Wiley
English Abstract
Modern climate change is producing poleward range shifts of numerous taxa, communities and ecosystems worldwide. The response of species to changing environments is likely to be determined largely by population responses ...Read more >
Modern climate change is producing poleward range shifts of numerous taxa, communities and ecosystems worldwide. The response of species to changing environments is likely to be determined largely by population responses at range margins. In contrast to the expanding edge, the low-latitude limit (rear edge) of species ranges remains understudied, and the critical importance of rear edge populations as long-term stores of species' genetic diversity and foci of speciation has been little acknowledged. We review recent findings from the fossil record, phylogeography and ecology to illustrate that rear edge populations are often disproportionately important for the survival and evolution of biota. Their ecological features, dynamics and conservation requirements differ from those of populations in other parts of the range, and some commonly recommended conservation practices might therefore be of little use or even counterproductive for rear edge populationsRead less <
Keywords
PERIPHERAL POPULATIONS
English Keywords
DEMOGRAPHY
DIVERSIFICATION
GENETIC DIFFERENCIATION
GLACIAL REFUGIA
GLOBAL CHANGE
LEADING EDGE
QUATERNARY
TRAILING EDGE
Origin
Hal imported