Journal article
The roles of acclimation and behaviour in buffering climate change impacts along elevational gradients
Urtzi Enriquez-Urzelai, Reid Tingley, Michael R Kearney, Martina Sacco, Antonio S Palacio, Miguel Tejedo, Alfredo G Nicieza
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY | WILEY | Published : 2020
Abstract
The vulnerability of species to climate change is jointly influenced by geographic phenotypic variation, acclimation and behavioural thermoregulation. The importance of interactions between these factors, however, remains poorly understood. We demonstrate how advances in mechanistic niche modelling can be used to integrate and assess the influence of these sources of uncertainty in forecasts of climate change impacts. We explored geographic variation in thermal tolerance (i.e. maximum and minimum thermal limits) and its potential for acclimation in juvenile European common frogs Rana temporaria along elevational gradients. Furthermore, we employed a mechanistic niche model (NicheMapR) to ass..
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Awarded by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
Funding Acknowledgements
Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Grant/Award Number: BES-2013-063203, CGL2012-40246-C02-01, CGL2012-40246-C02-02 and CGL2017-86924-P; ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award