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Title: | Climate change effects on population dynamics of three species of Amazonian lizards |
Authors: | Diele-Viegas, Luisa Maria Werneck, F. P. Rocha, Carlos Frederico D. da |
Keywords: | Biological Trait Climate Change Demography Elasticity Forest Greenhouse Effect Greenhouse Gas Growth Rate Habitat Life History Trait Lizard Nonhuman Population Dynamics Population Growth Simulation Theoretical Study |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 236 |
Abstract: | The scarcity of data on natural history and ecology of lizards still limits the understanding of population dynamics for many species. We attempt to evaluate possible effects of climate change on the population dynamics of three lizard species (Ameiva ameiva, Gonatodes humeralis and Norops fuscoauratus) in two Amazonian localities (Caxiuanã National Forest and Ducke Reserve). We calculated a tolerance index combining environmental thermal adequacy with the b-d model, which consider survival and reproductive rates to calculate population dynamics. Thus, we simulated population growth rates based on current and future environmental operative temperatures, considering an optimistic and a business-as-usual scenario of greenhouse gases emissions (GGE), and evaluate if the sensitivity of life history traits to population growth rate are likely to be trigged by climate change. Our results demonstrated that both populations of G. humeralis and the Ducke population of N. fuscoauratus may become locally extinct under both scenarios of GGE, while both populations of A. ameiva are likely to decrease, but without reaching a scenario of local extirpation. This study represents the first effort to evaluate the sensitivity of lizard populations and elasticity to climate change and demonstrate the geographic variability of these traits in three widespread and habitat-generalist species. We highlight the need of new studies focusing on species with different biological trait patterns, such as endemic distributions and habitat-specialists, to provide the theoretical and empirical basis for biologically informed conservation strategies and actions, in order to minimize the potential extinction of populations due to climate change. © 2019 Elsevier Inc. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.110530 |
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