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SUBMITTER: Beyer RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7648644 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beyer Robert M RM Manica Andrea A
Nature communications 20201106 1
Species' vulnerability to extinction is strongly impacted by their geographical range size. Formulating effective conservation strategies therefore requires a better understanding of how the ranges of the world's species have changed in the past, and how they will change under alternative future scenarios. Here, we use reconstructions of global land use and biomes since 1700, and 16 possible climatic and socio-economic scenarios until the year 2100, to map the habitat ranges of 16,919 mammal, bi ...[more]