Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches
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Demise of the Lizards: Despite pessimistic forecasts from recent studies examining the effects of global climate change on species, and observed extinctions in local geographic areas, there is little evidence so far of global-scale extinctions. Sinervo et al. (p. 894 ; see the Perspective by Huey et al. ) find that extinctions resulting from climate change are currently reducing global lizard diversity. Climate records during the past century were synthesized with detailed surveys of Mexican species at 200 sites over the past 30 years. Temperature change has been so rapid in this region that rates of adaptation have not kept pace with climate change. The models were then extended to all families of lizards at >1000 sites across the globe, and suggest that climate change-induced extinctions are currently affecting worldwide lizard assemblages.
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Predictions of tropical ectotherm vulnerability have been verified in a variety of tropical reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.
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Sinervo et al. reached broadly similar conclusions for baskers and thermal-conformers in temperate and tropical habitats.
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- Authors
- Sinervo, B., Méndez-de-la-Cruz, F., Miles, D. B., Heulin, B., Bastiaans, E., Villagrán-Santa Cruz, M., Lara-Resendiz, R., Martínez-Méndez, N., Calderón-Espinosa, M. L., Meza-Lázaro, R. N., Gadsden, H., Avila, L. J., Morando, M., De la Riva, I. J., Sepulveda, P. V., Rocha, C. F. D., Ibargüengoytía, N., Puntriano, C. A., Massot, M., Lepetz, V., Oksanen, T. A., Chapple, D. G., Bauer, A. M., Branch, W. R., Clobert, J., & Sites, J. W.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Laboratorio de Herpetología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., 04510, México.
- CNRS UMR 6553, Station Biologique, 35380 Paimpont, France.
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Laboratorio de Biología de la Reproducción Animal, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., 04510, México.
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia.
- Instituto de Ecología (MX)
- Centro Nacional Patagónico, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Blvd. Brown 2915, U9120ACD, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, C/ José Gutiérrez, Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
- Universidad de Concepción, Dpto. Zoología, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile.
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
- Departamento de Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. Arenales 1256, Jesús María Apdo 14-0434, Lima 14, Perú.
- University of Jyväskylä (FI)
- Monash University (AU)
- Villanova University (US)
- Bayworld (ZA)
- Brigham Young University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sinervo, Barry
- Lepetz, Virginie
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- Published
- 2010-05-14
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- 328
- Issue
- 5980
- Pages
- 894-899
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2017677393
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- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-08-BDVA-0007)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecological Modeling › Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Keywords
- climate change, local extinction, thermal niche, extinction risk, population decline (ecology), range shifts, physiological modeling, reptile diversity, Mexican lizards
- MeSH terms
- Acclimatization, Animals, Body Temperature, Biological Evolution, Female, Forecasting, Geography, Lizards, Male, Mexico, Models, Biological, Phylogeny, Population Dynamics, Reproduction, Seasons, Selection, Genetic, Temperature, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Extinction, Biological, Climate Change, Global Warming
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