articleNature CommunicationsMar 13, 2023GOLD OA

Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

CMChunrong MiLMLiang MaMYMengyuan YangXLXinhai LiSMShai Meiri

Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +30 more institutions

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Abstract

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…

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  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Ecology
  • Geography
  • Subtropics
  • Amphibian
  • Global biodiversity
  • Species distribution
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