1. Climate change will decrease the range of a keystone fish species in La Plata River Basin, South America
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Dayani Bailly, Guilherme Okuda Landgraf, Maria Julia Mileo Ganassin, Fernanda A. S. Cassemiro, João Vitor Fonseca da Silva, Joyce Andreia dos Santos, Eloiza Muniz Capparros, José R. P. Adelino, Emanuel Giovani Cafofo, Priscila Lemes, Eliezer de Oliveira da Conceição, Bárbara Furigo Zanco, Jislaine Cristina da Silva, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Isadora J. de Oliveira, Janice L. Antiqueira, Marcia Sayuri Iquematsu, Renata Ruaro, Aline Caroline Magro de Paula, Tatiane Mantovano, Alfonso Pineda, Valéria Flávia Batista-Silva, Angelo Antonio Agostinho, Thiago F. Rangel, Geovani Arnhold Moresco, Jéssica Ernandes-Silva, Mirtha Amanda Angulo-Valencia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas- ICB, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), and Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Ecological niche ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,Range (biology) ,Global warming ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Species distribution ,Drainage basin ,Climate change ,Aquatic Science ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Climate refugia ,Environmental niche modelling ,Predictive uncertainty ,Ecological niche modeling ,Environmental science ,Keystone species ,Salminus brasiliensis ,Geographic range - Abstract
Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-06T16:17:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-06-01 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Climate change threatens freshwater fish by severely modifying water quality and hydrological dynamics, hence altering the species distribution. We assessed the climate change effects on the geographical distribution of Salminus brasiliensis, a keystone species of economic interest in the La Plata River basin. Using ecological niche models, we estimated the species range in the present time and assessed the range shift phenomena through climatically suitable areas in the future. We also quantified the predictive uncertainty from niche models, atmosphere–ocean general circulation models, and carbon emission scenarios. Our predictions indicated a great range contraction of S. brasiliensis in the future. The south-central portion of the basin should retain the climate refuge function for the species at 2050. Nonetheless, the segregation of this climate refuge in two smaller parts was predicted at the end of the century. Our study also revealed that the greatest source of uncertainty in forecasts of species range shifts arises from using alternative niche algorithms in modeling process. Our results contribute to more effective measures for conservation of S. brasiliensis, thus helping to ensure the ecosystem processes and socioeconomic activities in the basin dependent on this species. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais. Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia Ictiologia e Aquicultura - Nupelia Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Av. Colombo 5790 Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia – Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Instituto de Ciências Biológicas- ICB, Campus Universitário, Bairro São Pedro Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro Universidade Estadual Júlio Mesquita Filho – UNESP Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução Universidade Federal de Goiás Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul – UEMS Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro Universidade Estadual Júlio Mesquita Filho – UNESP CNPq: 141371/2016-1
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- 2019