Climate change likely to increase co-occurrence of island endemic and invasive wildlife

Boone, Wesley W.; McCleery, Robert A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2022.100061

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“…Wildlife species distributions are affected by both natural and anthropogenic disturbance (Holt & Keitt, 2000 ; Rio‐Maior et al., 2019 ; Woodroffe & Ginsberg, 1998 ). Natural disturbances such as wildfire, climate shifts, and species invasions can alter habitat availability and connectivity, or create phenological mismatch (Boone & McCleery, 2023 ; Holt & Keitt, 2000 ; Pozzanghera et al., 2016 ). Anthropogenic disturbances like urbanization, logging, and agriculture put additional stressors on populations by creating novel environments (Holt & Keitt, 2000 ; Tuomainen & Candolin, 2011 ).…”

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“…Wildlife species distributions are affected by both natural and anthropogenic disturbance (Holt & Keitt, 2000;Rio-Maior et al, 2019;Woodroffe & Ginsberg, 1998). Natural disturbances such as wildfire, climate shifts, and species invasions can alter habitat availability and connectivity, or create phenological mismatch (Boone & McCleery, 2023;Holt & Keitt, 2000;Pozzanghera et al, 2016).…”

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Mesocarnivore sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbance leads to declines in occurrence and concern for species persistence

Ganoe,

Mayer,

Brown

et al. 2024

Ecology and Evolution

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Understanding mesocarnivore responses to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance is crucial for understanding species' potential to maintain landscape persistence into the future. We examined the response of five mesocarnivore species (bobcat, coyote, fisher, gray fox, and red fox) to both types of disturbances and climatic conditions. The Northeastern U.S. has experienced multiple large‐scale disturbances, such as a mass defoliation event following larval spongy moth outbreak and high densities of infrastructure that divide the natural landcover into roadless zones where these species inhabit. Using dynamic occupancy models in a Bayesian framework, we aimed to (1) examine variation in species' responses over a 4‐year study by estimating variation in site‐level occupancy, colonization and extirpation of each species in the state of Rhode Island relative to natural disturbance (i.e., defoliation event), anthropogenic disturbance (i.e., parceling of natural landcover bounded by roads, distance to roads), and climate (i.e., seasonal precipitation) and (2) compare current occurrence trends to predicted asymptotic occupancy to identify key variables contributing to distribution instability. Our findings indicated declines in the occurrence of both fox species, and fisher. There was variation in mesocarnivore response to disturbance among the species. We found gray fox and fisher occupancy dynamics to be sensitive to all forms of disturbance and coyote occurrence was positively associated with anthropogenic disturbance. Although bobcat and red fox were predicted to respond positively to future climate scenarios, fisher and gray fox were not, and persistence of fisher and gray fox in a landscape of disturbance relies on large areas with high forest and shrubland cover. With the wide‐spread spongy moth outbreak across much of southern New England, our findings indicate that efforts to conserve forested lands may be crucial in maintaining the persistence of several mesocarnivore species in this region experiencing large‐scale disturbance.

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Mesocarnivore sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbance leads to declines in occurrence and concern for species persistence

Ganoe,

Mayer,

Brown

et al. 2024

Ecology and Evolution

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Sea level rise threatens Florida’s insular vertebrate biodiversity

Koen,

Barichivich,

Braun de Torrez

et al. 2024

Biodivers Conserv

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Islands are some of the most biodiverse places on earth, but they are also hotspots of biodiversity loss. The coastline of Florida, U.S.A., is surrounded by thousands of islands, many of which are home to species that occur nowhere else. A rapidly emerging threat to these low-lying islands is inundation as sea levels rise. The capacity of island-dwelling species to adapt to climate change and sea level rise may be limited because many species do not have the ability to shift their distribution off the island to track favorable conditions. We assessed the vulnerability of Florida’s islands to inundation from sea level rise and estimated the terrestrial biodiversity on Florida’s islands that could be lost. Our models predicted that by 2100, over 80% and up to 90% of Florida’s islands could be completely inundated from sea level rise, depending on the sea level rise projection (1.2 m or 2.2 m). Of the 85 mammalian, reptilian, and amphibian species on our subset list of Florida’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need, over half occur on Florida’s islands for at least part of their range, highlighting the importance of these islands for housing Florida’s rich biodiversity. Notably, at least 12 mammal species and 7 reptile species have their entire distribution on Florida’s islands, and this count is likely an underestimate. Projections of future sea level rise mean that these island-endemic species face the threat of extinction in the wild if their island habitat is submerged.

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Minimal shift of eastern wild turkey nesting phenology associated with projected climate change

Boone¹,

Moorman²,

Terando³

et al. 2023

Climate Change Ecology

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Climate change likely to increase co-occurrence of island endemic and invasive wildlife

Cited by 6 publications

References 70 publications

Mesocarnivore sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbance leads to declines in occurrence and concern for species persistence

Mesocarnivore sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbance leads to declines in occurrence and concern for species persistence

Sea level rise threatens Florida’s insular vertebrate biodiversity

Minimal shift of eastern wild turkey nesting phenology associated with projected climate change

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