Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Future climate change vulnerability of endemic island mammals

  • Camille Leclerc,
  • Franck Courchamp,
  • Céline Bellard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18740-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Island ecosystems are notoriously vulnerable to anthropogenic species losses. Here, the authors identify insular hotspots of vulnerability to climate change (under RCPs 6.0 and 8.5) in mammals via a trait-based, quantitative vulnerability framework, finding that exposure to climate change is not a reliable proxy to assess species vulnerability, while sensitivity and adaptive capacity are crucial to understand vulnerability.