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Severe loss of suitable climatic conditions for marsupial species in Brazil: Challenges and opportunities for conservation [1]

A wide range of evidences indicate climate change as one the greatest threats to biodiversity in the 21st century. The impacts of these changes, which may have already resulted in several recent species extinction, are species-specific and produce shifts in species phenology, ecological interactions, and geographical distributions. Here we used cutting-edge methods of species distribution models combining thousands of model projections to generate a complete and comprehensive ensemble of forecasts that shows the likely impacts of climate change in the distribution of all 55 marsupial species that occur in Brazil.

Publication Date: 
28/09/2012
Rafael D. Loyola [2], Priscila Lemes [3], Frederico V. Faleiro & et al [4]
PLoS ONE [5]
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Fauna [6], Climate Change [7], Biodiversity [8], Climate Impacts [9], Brazil [10], Amazon [11]
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