Journal article
Global exposure risk of frogs to increasing environmental dryness
NC Wu, RP Bovo, U Enriquez-Urzelai, S Clusella-Trullas, MR Kearney, CA Navas, JD Kong
Nature Climate Change | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2024
Abstract
Compared with the risks associated with climate warming and extremes, the risks of climate-induced drying to animal species remain understudied. This is particularly true for water-sensitive groups, such as anurans (frogs and toads), whose long-term survival must be considered in the context of both environmental changes and species sensitivity. Here, we mapped global areas where anurans will face increasing water limitations, analysed ecotype sensitivity to water loss and modelled behavioural activity impacts under future climate change scenarios. Predictions indicate that 6.6–33.6% of anuran habitats will become arid like by 2080–2100, with 15.4–36.1% exposed to worsening drought, under an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper is dedicated to the late Phillip J. Bishop (1957-2021), who was at the forefront of amphibian conservation research in the southern hemisphere. He dedicated more than 30 years to amphibian conservation, and this study was inspired partly by his research and his passion for amphibians demonstrated at the Word Congress of Herpetology in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2020. This work was supported by the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (no. RVO: 68081766) to U.E.U., the Sao Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP (nos. 10/20061-6, 14/05624-5, 17/10338-0 and 19/04637-0 to R.P.B. and 14/16320-7 to C.A.N.) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa (incentive funding no. 28442 to S.C.-T).