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Predicting Climate Effects on Aquatic True Bugs in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot by S. Sundar; Daniel Paiva Silva; Fabio de Oliveira Roque; Juliana Simião-Ferreira; Jani Heino is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Climate change is a matter of worldwide concern with severe predicted impacts on biodiversity. Here, we analysed the potential impacts of current and future climates on aquatic true bugs (Heteroptera) in relation to their distribution patterns and ecological preferences (based on a database generated from existing literature references and field collections). We considered the traits as 'species thermal range' and 'emergence period' to evaluate the future climate change impacts on the distributions of aquatic true bugs in the riverine regions of a tropical biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats of India. We used Species Distribution Models (SDMs) to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on the distributions of aquatic true bugs. We modelled the distributions of twenty-six species of aquatic true bugs using different modelling tools through a carefully examined set of occurrence records to generate potential present distributions and to project these distributions into future scenarios of climate change. We observed increasing/decreasing range sizes of the species in the current and future scenarios. We found losses and increases of species' ranges in some regions, but n

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Author

S. Sundar; Daniel Paiva Silva; Fabio de Oliveira Roque; Juliana Simião-Ferreira; Jani Heino

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Life Sciences)