Alternative reproductive adaptations predict asymmetric responses to climate change in lizards

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dc.careerEscuela de Ciencias Biológicases
dc.category.authorprincipalen_US
dc.contributor.authorTorres Carvajal, Lenin Omar
dc.contributor.correspondingTorres Carvajal, Lenin Omar
dc.countryEcuadores
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-04T21:43:59Z
dc.date.available2023-11-04T21:43:59Z
dc.date.issued2019-03
dc.dedication.authorTCes
dc.description.abstractAnthropogenic climate change ranks among the major global-scale threats to modern biodiversity. Extinction risks are known to increase via the interactions between rapid climatic alterations and environmentally-sensitive species traits that fail to adapt to those changes. Accumulating evidence reveals the influence of ecophysiological, ecological and phenological factors as drivers underlying demographic collapses that lead to population extinctions. However, the extent to which life-history traits influence population responses to climate change remains largely unexplored. The emerging ‘cul-de-sac hypothesis’ predicts that reptilian viviparity (‘live-bearing’ reproduction), a ‘key innovation’ facilitating historical invasions of cold climates, increases extinction risks under progressively warming climates compared to oviparous reproduction – as warming advances polewards/mountainwards, historically cold-climates shrink, leading viviparous species to face demographic collapses. We present the first large-scale test of this prediction based on multiple lizard radiations and on future projections of climate-based ecological niche models. Viviparous species were found to experience stronger elevational range shifts (and potentially increased extinctions) in coming decades, compared to oviparous lizards. Therefore, our analyses support the hypothesis’s fundamental prediction that elevational shifts are more severe in viviparous species, and highlight the role that life-history adaptations play in the responses of biodiversity to ongoing climate change.en_US
dc.facultyCiencias Exactas y Naturaleses
dc.id.author1712335916
dc.id.type1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41670-8
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/handle/123456789/6008
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41670-8
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dc.language.isoen
dc.list.authorsJara, M., García-Roa, R., Escobar, L., Torres-Carvajal, O., y Pincheira-Donoso, D.
dc.magazine.pageRange1-9
dc.magazine.titleScientific Reportsen_US
dc.magazine.volumeChapter9
dc.rightsOpenAccessen
dc.statepublisheden_US
dc.subjectCambios Climáticoses
dc.subjectRespuesta Inmunológicaes
dc.subjectLagartijases
dc.subjectCambios Climáticos
dc.subjectRespuesta Inmunológica
dc.subjectLagartijas
dc.titleAlternative reproductive adaptations predict asymmetric responses to climate change in lizardsen_US
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