Incorporating local adaptation into forecasts of species' distribution and abundance under climate change

ML DeMarche, DF Doak, WF Morris - Global Change Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of many species are genetically adapted to local historical climate conditions.
Yet most forecasts of species' distributions under climate change have ignored local …

Incorporating intraspecific variation into species distribution models improves distribution predictions, but cannot predict species traits for a wide‐spread plant species

NI Chardon, S Pironon, ML Peterson, DF Doak - Ecography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The most common approach to predicting how species ranges and ecological functions will
shift with climate change is to construct correlative species distribution models (SDMs) …

Mechanistic variables can enhance predictive models of endotherm distributions: the American pika under current, past, and future climates

PD Mathewson, L Moyer‐Horner… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How climate constrains species' distributions through time and space is an important
question in the context of conservation planning for climate change. Despite increasing …

Climatic changes and the fate of mountain herbivores

S Lovari, S Franceschi, G Chiatante, L Fattorini… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Mountains are strongly seasonal habitats, which require special adaptations in wildlife
species living on them. Population dynamics of mountain ungulates are largely determined …

Influence of adaptive capacity on the outcome of climate change vulnerability assessment

BY Ofori, AJ Stow, JB Baumgartner, LJ Beaumont - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) has become a mainstay conservation
decision support tool. CCVAs are recommended to incorporate three elements of …

Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate‐sensitive mammal

PD Billman, EA Beever, DB McWethy… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species are frequently responding to contemporary climate change by shifting to higher
elevations and poleward to track suitable climate space. However, depending on local …

Alternatives to genetic affinity as a context for within-species response to climate

AB Smith, EA Beever, AE Kessler, AN Johnston… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Accounting for within-species variability in the relationship between occurrence and climate
is essential to forecasting species' responses to climate change. Few climate-vulnerability …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: implications for conservation status and actions

EA Beever, JL Wilkening, PD Billman, LL Thurman… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary climate change is modifying the distribution, morphology, phenology,
physiology, evolution, and interspecific interactions of species. Effects of climate change are …

Comparative genomics reveals putative evidence for high-elevation adaptation in the American pika (Ochotona princeps)

BMF Sjodin, MA Russello - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High-elevation environments have lower atmospheric oxygen content, reduced
temperatures, and higher levels of UV radiation than found at lower elevations. As such …

[HTML][HTML] Apparent climate-mediated loss and fragmentation of core habitat of the American pika in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

JAE Stewart, DH Wright, KA Heckman - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Contemporary climate change has been widely documented as the apparent cause of range
contraction at the edge of many species distributions but documentation of climate change …