Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches

By Kenneth J. Feeley, M. Silman. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “Similarly, a bioclimatic niche modeling study for South America estimated loss of plant species ranging anywhere from 30 to 50% with a 5°C temperature increase, with the large level of variation reflecting different assigned thermal tolerance niches [Feeley and Silman, 2010].”
Climate change in the tropics: The end of the world as we know it? (2012, background): “If the observed, narrow, thermal niches of the tropical lowland biota are used to predict their future survival, then 5 C warming would lead to an almost 100% loss of biodiversity from the Amazon basin (Feeley and Silman, 2010).”
Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records (2012, background): “…in press), possibly due to dispersal and/or recruitment limitation (Holl, 1999), man-made barriers to migration (e.g., human-influenced treelines (Feeley & Silman, 2010b)), habitat unsuitability due to other factors such as water availability, soil type and/or species interactions (Ibanez et…”
Upslope migration of Andean trees (2011, unknown): “…population size (Thomas et al., 2004; Feeley & Silman, 2010a) and to local declines in biodiversity due to ‘biotic attrition’ (Colwell et al., 2008; Feeley & Silman, 2010b), 1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, 2Center for Tropical Plant…”
Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient (2011, background): “This pattern also suggests that potential lowland biotic attrition caused by contemporary global warming (Colwell et al. 2008) may be ameliorated by expanded ranges of lowland species (Feeley and Silman 2010).”
The data void in modeling current and future distributions of tropical species (2011, background): “Even if species are capable of migrating, these range shifts often result in reduced habitat areas, increased risks of extinction, and loss of local biodiversity (Thomas et al., 2004; Malcolm et al., 2006; Colwell et al., 2008; Feeley & Silman, 2009a).”
Modeling Species and Community Responses to Past, Present, and Future Episodes of Climatic and Ecological Change (2015, background): “…in species-environment relationships is a fundamental problem in ecological forecasting because models may not be transferable between time periods, therefore potentially leading to uncertain future predictions and past reconstructions (Wiens et al. 2009, Feeley & Silman 2010, Veloz et al. 2012).”
The relative importance of deforestation, precipitation change, and temperature sensitivity in determining the future distributions and diversity of Amazonian plant species (2012, methodology): “…as recorded with the herbarium metadata vs. as extracted at the collection location from a Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM; http:// www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/; ground scale of 30 arc-seconds and vertical accuracy of ca. ± 16 m) exceeds 100 m (Feeley & Silman, 2010c).”