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- Title
Modelos de distribución potencial de mamíferos nativos en la Patagonia.
- Authors
ZULIANI, MELINA E.; MONJEAU, J. ADRIÁN
- Abstract
Given the prospects of climate change and its influence on the species' geographic range, it is important to clarify which climate indicators best explain current distributions, as tools for the conservation of threatened species. It is also important to know the percentage of protection of suitable habitats for these species. In this paper we identify the main climatic variables that explain the distribution patterns of 16 species of medium and largemammals in Patagonia through the MaxEnt model, using 19 bioclimatic variables from WorldClim, elevation, NDVI and EVI and a proxy for anthropic pressure (human footprint). We calculated the percentage of coverage of protected areas for each species and found that most of the ideal habitat is outside them, and that strictly protected areas (I and II) have more records of presence than managed resource areas (III to VI). Species with restricted distributions are the most vulnerable to extinction because they are less resilient to changes in the climatic envelope, especially outside protected areas.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL extinction; ENDANGERED species; HABITAT conservation; CLIMATE change; SPECIES distribution
- Publication
Ecologia Austral, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0327-5477
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25260/EA.22.32.L0.1706