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Luciana Zedda

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Climate change fosters the decline of epiphytic Lobaria species in Italy

2016

Similarly to other Mediterranean regions, Italy is expected to experience dramatic climatic changes in the coming decades. Do to their poikilohydric nature, lichens are among the most sensitive organisms to climate change and species requiring temperate-humid conditions may rapidly decline in Italy, such in the case of the epiphytic Lobaria species that are confined to humid forests. Our study, based on ecological niche modelling of occurrence data of three Lobaria species, revealed that in the next decades climate change will impact their distribution range across Italy, predicting a steep gradient of increasing range loss across time slices. Lobaria species are therefore facing a high ext…

0106 biological sciencesEpiphytic lichen010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesRange (biology)EvolutionClimate changeClimatic niche; Epiphytic lichens; Global change; Habitat suitability; Niche modelling; Range loss; Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesNiche modellingBehavior and SystematicsLobariaFlagship speciesLichenGlobal changeEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsClimatic niche0105 earth and related environmental sciencesNature and Landscape ConservationEcological nicheExtinctionbiologyEcologyEcologyClimatic niche Epiphytic lichens Global change Habitat suitability Niche modelling Range lossbiology.organism_classificationEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicRange lossHabitatRange loHabitat suitabilityEpiphytic lichens
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