Considering plant-ungulate interaction contribute to maximizing conservation efficiency under climate change

IF 3.5 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Global Ecology and Conservation Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI:10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03536
Yingying Zhuo , Muyang Wang , Sabina Koirala , Alice C. Hughes , Wenxuan Xu , Abdulnazarov Abdulnazar , Ali Madad Rajabi , Askar Davletbakov , Jibran Haider , Muhammad Zafar Khan , Nabiev Loik , Sorosh Poya Faryabi , Stefan Michel , Stephane Ostrowski , Wenjun Li , Ye Tao , Zalmai Moheb , Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl , António Alves da Silva , Joana Alves , Weikang Yang
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Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, thus understanding how these impacts manifest, and how they might be mitigated is a major priority for conservation biologists. Yet understanding the impacts is complex, due to the nuanced impacts on species directly, as well as resources they depend on. In this study, we examined how biotic interactions, specifically plant availability, effects the distribution patterns of an ungulate, i.e., Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii). Our findings suggest that plant availability is a major predictor of the sheep's range. The species distribution models (SDMs) incorporating biotic interactions, i.e., plant availability, increases accuracy in predicting the underlying implications of climate change on ungulates compared to models that exclude these interactions. Our results reveal discrepancies in ungulate spatial distribution patterns, with future suitable habitat contraction being less pronounced when incorporating biotic variables than without biotic variables (27 % vs. 33 %). Therefore, ignoring biotic interaction may overestimate the impacts of climate change, resulting in the inefficient allocation of scarce conservation resources. Additionally, our results indicate the importance of protected areas (PAs) as important climatic refugia, though less than half of the range is currently within PAs. This study emphasizes the non-negligible role of biotic interactions in forecasting the geographical distribution of ungulates, which has critical implications for the future wildlife conservation.
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Global Ecology and Conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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期刊介绍: Global Ecology and Conservation is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal covering all sub-disciplines of ecological and conservation science: from theory to practice, from molecules to ecosystems, from regional to global. The fields covered include: organismal, population, community, and ecosystem ecology; physiological, evolutionary, and behavioral ecology; and conservation science.
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