TY - JOUR
T1 - Does size matter? An analysis of the niche width and vulnerability to climate change of fourteen species of the genus Crotalus from North America
AU - Becerra-López, Jorge Luis
AU - Cruz-Elizalde, Raciel
AU - Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio
AU - Magno-Benítez, Itzel
AU - Ballesteros-Barrera, Claudia
AU - Alvarado-Díaz, Javier
AU - Bryson, Robert W.
AU - Hernández-Salinas, Uriel
AU - Díaz-Marín, César A.
AU - Berriozabal-Islas, Christian
AU - Fraire-Galindo, Karen
AU - Tello-Ruiz, Juan
AU - Czaja, Alexander
AU - Torres-Delgado, María Guadalupe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2022 Becerra-López et al.
©2022 Becerra-López et al.
PY - 2022/4/5
Y1 - 2022/4/5
N2 - The niche comprises the set of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions in which a species can live. Consequently, those species that present broader niches are expected to be more tolerant to changes in climatic variations than those species that present reduced niches. In this study, we estimate the amplitude of the climatic niche of fourteen species of rattlesnakes of the genus Crotalus to evaluate whether those species that present broader niches are less susceptible to the loss of climatically suitable zones due to the projected climate change for the time period 2021–2040. Our results suggest that for the species under study, the breadth of the niche is not a factor that determines their vulnerability to climatic variations. However, 71.4% of the species will experience increasingly inadequate habitat conditions, mainly due to the increase in temperature and the contribution that this variable has in the creation of climatically suitable zones for most of these species.
AB - The niche comprises the set of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions in which a species can live. Consequently, those species that present broader niches are expected to be more tolerant to changes in climatic variations than those species that present reduced niches. In this study, we estimate the amplitude of the climatic niche of fourteen species of rattlesnakes of the genus Crotalus to evaluate whether those species that present broader niches are less susceptible to the loss of climatically suitable zones due to the projected climate change for the time period 2021–2040. Our results suggest that for the species under study, the breadth of the niche is not a factor that determines their vulnerability to climatic variations. However, 71.4% of the species will experience increasingly inadequate habitat conditions, mainly due to the increase in temperature and the contribution that this variable has in the creation of climatically suitable zones for most of these species.
KW - Environmental factors
KW - Niche modelling
KW - Snakes
KW - Viperidae
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U2 - 10.7717/peerj.13154
DO - 10.7717/peerj.13154
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 35402099
AN - SCOPUS:85128691102
SN - 2167-8359
VL - 10
JO - PeerJ
JF - PeerJ
M1 - e13154
ER -