TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change
AU - Mi, Chunrong
AU - Ma, Liang
AU - Yang, Mengyuan
AU - Li, Xinhai
AU - Meiri, Shai
AU - Roll, Uri
AU - Oskyrko, Oleksandra
AU - Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel
AU - Harvey, Lilly P.
AU - Jablonski, Daniel
AU - Safaei-Mahroo, Barbod
AU - Ghaffari, Hanyeh
AU - Smid, Jiri
AU - Jarvie, Scott
AU - Kimani, Ronnie Mwangi
AU - Masroor, Rafaqat
AU - Kazemi, Seyed Mahdi
AU - Nneji, Lotanna Micah
AU - Fokoua, Arnaud Marius Tchassem
AU - Tasse Taboue, Geraud C.
AU - Bauer, Aaron
AU - Nogueira, Cristiano
AU - Meirte, Danny
AU - Chapple, David G.
AU - Das, Indraneil
AU - Grismer, Lee
AU - Avila, Luciano Javier
AU - Ribeiro Júnior, Marco Antônio
AU - Tallowin, Oliver J.S.
AU - Torres-Carvajal, Omar
AU - Wagner, Philipp
AU - Ron, Santiago R.
AU - Wang, Yuezhao
AU - Itescu, Yuval
AU - Nagy, Zoltán Tamás
AU - Wilcove, David S.
AU - Liu, Xuan
AU - Du, Weiguo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we collated distributional data for >14,000 (~70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) to perform a global assessment of the conservation effectiveness of PAs using species distribution models. Our analyses reveal that >91% of herpetofauna species are currently distributed in PAs, and that this proportion will remain unaltered under future climate change. Indeed, loss of species’ distributional ranges will be lower inside PAs than outside them. Therefore, the proportion of effectively protected species is predicted to increase. However, over 7.8% of species currently occur outside PAs, and large spatial conservation gaps remain, mainly across tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and across non-high-income countries. We also predict that more than 300 amphibian and 500 reptile species may go extinct under climate change over the course of the ongoing century. Our study highlights the importance of PAs in providing herpetofauna with refuge from climate change, and suggests ways to optimize PAs to better conserve biodiversity worldwide.
AB - Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we collated distributional data for >14,000 (~70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) to perform a global assessment of the conservation effectiveness of PAs using species distribution models. Our analyses reveal that >91% of herpetofauna species are currently distributed in PAs, and that this proportion will remain unaltered under future climate change. Indeed, loss of species’ distributional ranges will be lower inside PAs than outside them. Therefore, the proportion of effectively protected species is predicted to increase. However, over 7.8% of species currently occur outside PAs, and large spatial conservation gaps remain, mainly across tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and across non-high-income countries. We also predict that more than 300 amphibian and 500 reptile species may go extinct under climate change over the course of the ongoing century. Our study highlights the importance of PAs in providing herpetofauna with refuge from climate change, and suggests ways to optimize PAs to better conserve biodiversity worldwide.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-36987-y
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-36987-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 36914628
AN - SCOPUS:85150087823
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 14
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 1389
ER -