Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Global correlates of range contractions and expansions in terrestrial mammals

  • Michela Pacifici,
  • Carlo Rondinini,
  • Jonathan R. Rhodes,
  • Andrew A. Burbidge,
  • Andrea Cristiano,
  • James E. M. Watson,
  • John C. Z. Woinarski,
  • Moreno Di Marco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16684-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding why many species ranges are contracting while others are stable or expanding is important to inform conservation in an increasingly human-modified world. Here, Pacifici and colleagues investigate changes in the ranges of 204 mammals, showing that human factors mostly explain range contractions while life history explains both contraction and expansion.