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Heterogeneous responses of temperate-zone amphibian populations to climate change complicates conservation planning

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Title
Heterogeneous responses of temperate-zone amphibian populations to climate change complicates conservation planning
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Scientific Reports, December 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-17105-7
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E. Muths, T. Chambert, B. R. Schmidt, D. A. W. Miller, B. R. Hossack, P. Joly, O. Grolet, D. M. Green, D. S. Pilliod, M. Cheylan, R. N. Fisher, R. M. McCaffery, M. J. Adams, W. J. Palen, J. W. Arntzen, J. Garwood, G. Fellers, J.-M. Thirion, A. Besnard, E. H. Campbell Grant

Abstract

The pervasive and unabated nature of global amphibian declines suggests common demographic responses to a given driver, and quantification of major drivers and responses could inform broad-scale conservation actions. We explored the influence of climate on demographic parameters (i.e., changes in the probabilities of survival and recruitment) using 31 datasets from temperate zone amphibian populations (North America and Europe) with more than a decade of observations each. There was evidence for an influence of climate on population demographic rates, but the direction and magnitude of responses to climate drivers was highly variable among taxa and among populations within taxa. These results reveal that climate drivers interact with variation in life-history traits and population-specific attributes resulting in a diversity of responses. This heterogeneity complicates the identification of conservation 'rules of thumb' for these taxa, and supports the notion of local focus as the most effective approach to overcome global-scale conservation challenges.

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Unknown 126 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 19%
Researcher 23 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 27 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 59 47%
Environmental Science 19 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 32 25%
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#14,086,689
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