What is it about?
Climate change is a major threat to the persistence of biodiversity. We have shown that 15% of freshwater crayfish species are vulnerable to climate change around the world. Of the 91 species listed as threatened by climate change in the IUCN Red List, 18 species were also predicted to be climate change vulnerable. We identified hotspots of species vulnerable to climate change that require further conservation attention.
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Why is it important?
The approach used here can help identify data gaps and key traits that should be investigated further and thus can help overcome knowledge shortfalls on the effects of climate change. Our study provides key insights for the application of climate change vulnerability assessment to data‐poor invertebrates, which remain underrepresented in global conservation priorities.
Perspectives
This study gives us an opportunity to investigate further to fill data gaps and that we can save our invertebrate fauna.
Mr Md Anwar Hossain
University of Melbourne
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This page is a summary of: Assessing the vulnerability of freshwater crayfish to climate change, Diversity and Distributions, August 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12831.
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