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Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate-driven change in North American amphibian communities

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, September 2018
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Title
Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate-driven change in North American amphibian communities
Published in
Nature Communications, September 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-06157-6
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David A. W. Miller, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Erin Muths, Staci M. Amburgey, Michael J. Adams, Maxwell B. Joseph, J. Hardin Waddle, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Maureen E. Ryan, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Daniel L. Calhoun, Courtney L. Davis, Robert N. Fisher, David M. Green, Blake R. Hossack, Tracy A. G. Rittenhouse, Susan C. Walls, Larissa L. Bailey, Sam S. Cruickshank, Gary M. Fellers, Thomas A. Gorman, Carola A. Haas, Ward Hughson, David S. Pilliod, Steven J. Price, Andrew M. Ray, Walt Sadinski, Daniel Saenz, William J. Barichivich, Adrianne Brand, Cheryl S. Brehme, Rosi Dagit, Katy S. Delaney, Brad M. Glorioso, Lee B. Kats, Patrick M. Kleeman, Christopher A. Pearl, Carlton J. Rochester, Seth P. D. Riley, Mark Roth, Brent H. Sigafus

Abstract

Changing climate will impact species' ranges only when environmental variability directly impacts the demography of local populations. However, measurement of demographic responses to climate change has largely been limited to single species and locations. Here we show that amphibian communities are responsive to climatic variability, using >500,000 time-series observations for 81 species across 86 North American study areas. The effect of climate on local colonization and persistence probabilities varies among eco-regions and depends on local climate, species life-histories, and taxonomic classification. We found that local species richness is most sensitive to changes in water availability during breeding and changes in winter conditions. Based on the relationships we measure, recent changes in climate cannot explain why local species richness of North American amphibians has rapidly declined. However, changing climate does explain why some populations are declining faster than others. Our results provide important insights into how amphibians respond to climate and a general framework for measuring climate impacts on species richness.

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Unknown 228 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 43 19%
Student > Master 34 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 32 14%
Unknown 52 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 84 37%
Environmental Science 52 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 2%
Social Sciences 3 1%
Other 13 6%
Unknown 65 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 October 2018.
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