Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation

Context: Efforts to adapt conservation to climate change often focus on facilitating range shifts to higher latitudes, by enhancing landscape capacity for poleward expansion. The need to protect populations at trailing edges of species distributions, and how and where to do so, has received less att...

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Autores: Jones, Rachel, Wilson, Robert J., Bourn, Nigel A.D., Maclean, Ilya M.D.
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Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palavra-chave:Range Shifts
Range Retractions
Climate Change
In situ conservation
Microrefugial Landscapes
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spelling Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservationJones, RachelWilson, Robert J.Bourn, Nigel A.D.Maclean, Ilya M.D.Range ShiftsRange RetractionsClimate ChangeIn situ conservationMicrorefugial LandscapesContext: Efforts to adapt conservation to climate change often focus on facilitating range shifts to higher latitudes, by enhancing landscape capacity for poleward expansion. The need to protect populations at trailing edges of species distributions, and how and where to do so, has received less attention. Objectives: We assess how population declines caused by variation over space and time in exposure to climate change can necessitate conservation adaptation to climate change throughout species’ geographic ranges. We propose approaches for conservation in landscapes where species are vulnerable. Methods: We synthesize primary literature relating to recent landscape-scale changes to species distributions to identify evidence for patchy patterns of climate-driven decline. We use this evidence to propose a framework to adapt terrestrial species conservation. Results: Patchy retractions occur throughout species ranges as environmental heterogeneity results in spatial variation in climate and rates of climate change, whereas equatorward range margins are often not the f irst place to exceed climatic limits. Furthermore, climate effects on fitness, survival and reproduction interact with habitat quality, creating both localized extinction hotspots and climatically resilient microrefugial landscapes across species ranges. Conservation can benefit from the identification of vulnerable versus microrefugial landscapes, and implementation of targeted interventions. Conclusions: A focus on expansions and retractions at broad latitudinal range margins risks overlooking declines throughout species’ distributions. Understanding fine-resolution ecological responses to the climate can help to identify resilient microrefugial landscapes, and targeted management to promote cooler or more stable conditions can complement facilitation of broader-scale range shifts.This work was supported by an Industrial CASE studentship from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (Grant Reference: NE/N00857X/1). Funding from NERC (project NE/W006618/1) and MCI/AEI/FEDER EU (project PID2021-126293OB-I00) supported the involvement of IM and RW. Butterfly Conservation and the Heather Corrie Fund supported NB.Peer reviewedKluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersWilson, Robert J. [0000-0003-4477-7068]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2025202520232025info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcPublisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/386895reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCI/AEI/FEDER EUhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01776-xSíinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3868952026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
title Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
spellingShingle Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
Jones, Rachel
Range Shifts
Range Retractions
Climate Change
In situ conservation
Microrefugial Landscapes
title_short Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
title_full Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
title_fullStr Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
title_full_unstemmed Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
title_sort Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Jones, Rachel
Wilson, Robert J.
Bourn, Nigel A.D.
Maclean, Ilya M.D.
author Jones, Rachel
author_facet Jones, Rachel
Wilson, Robert J.
Bourn, Nigel A.D.
Maclean, Ilya M.D.
author_role author
author2 Wilson, Robert J.
Bourn, Nigel A.D.
Maclean, Ilya M.D.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Wilson, Robert J. [0000-0003-4477-7068]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Range Shifts
Range Retractions
Climate Change
In situ conservation
Microrefugial Landscapes
topic Range Shifts
Range Retractions
Climate Change
In situ conservation
Microrefugial Landscapes
description Context: Efforts to adapt conservation to climate change often focus on facilitating range shifts to higher latitudes, by enhancing landscape capacity for poleward expansion. The need to protect populations at trailing edges of species distributions, and how and where to do so, has received less attention. Objectives: We assess how population declines caused by variation over space and time in exposure to climate change can necessitate conservation adaptation to climate change throughout species’ geographic ranges. We propose approaches for conservation in landscapes where species are vulnerable. Methods: We synthesize primary literature relating to recent landscape-scale changes to species distributions to identify evidence for patchy patterns of climate-driven decline. We use this evidence to propose a framework to adapt terrestrial species conservation. Results: Patchy retractions occur throughout species ranges as environmental heterogeneity results in spatial variation in climate and rates of climate change, whereas equatorward range margins are often not the f irst place to exceed climatic limits. Furthermore, climate effects on fitness, survival and reproduction interact with habitat quality, creating both localized extinction hotspots and climatically resilient microrefugial landscapes across species ranges. Conservation can benefit from the identification of vulnerable versus microrefugial landscapes, and implementation of targeted interventions. Conclusions: A focus on expansions and retractions at broad latitudinal range margins risks overlooking declines throughout species’ distributions. Understanding fine-resolution ecological responses to the climate can help to identify resilient microrefugial landscapes, and targeted management to promote cooler or more stable conditions can complement facilitation of broader-scale range shifts.
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