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Karst landforms as microrefugia for soil Collembola: Open versus forested dolines

Elem Sci Anth
Enclosed surficial karst dolines are geomorphologically diverse habitats with the potential to strongly shape community structure and the distribution of functional groups of organisms. Forest habitats in karst landscapes are characterized by lower soil temperatures and microclimatic fluctuations compared to open habitats; therefore, they may provide ...
Michal Marcin, Natália Raschmanová, Dana Miklisová, Jozef Šupinský, Ján Kaňuk, L’ubomír Kováč   +5 more
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Breaking down Palila decline: Assessing the role of drought and vegetation health in the population loss of an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper

Global Ecology and Conservation
The Palila (Loxioides bailleui), the last member of the once speciose finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper clade (Drepanidinae) in the main Hawaiian Islands, faces critical conservation challenges as an endangered species.
Erica M. Gallerani, Richard J. Camp, Paul C. Banko, Austin Madson, Chunyu Dong, Lucas Berio Fortini, Zhimin Ma, Thomas W. Gillespie   +7 more
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Forest fragmentation alters winter microclimates and microrefugia in human‐modified landscapes

Ecography, 2016
With over half of earth's terrestrial biota living beneath forest canopies, our ability to accurately capture organism–climate relationships in forested ecosystems is imperative for predicting species' vulnerability to future climate change. Assessing the vulnerability of forest dependent species, however, hinges on quantifying microclimates that exist
Christopher E. Latimer, Benjamin Zuckerberg   +1 more
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Phylogeographic studies of schizothoracine fishes on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau reveal the highest known glacial microrefugia

, 2017
Pleistocene climatic oscillations have greatly influenced the evolutionary history and distribution pattern of most extant species. However, their effects on species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) are not well understood.
Chen, Yifeng, Yangyang Liang, Dekui He, Jia, Yintao, Heying Sun, Yifeng Chen, Liang, Yangyang, Sun, Heying, Yintao Jia, He, Dekui   +9 more
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Tiny habitats of tiny species: the importance of micro-refugia for threatened island-endemic arthropods

Oryx
Island-endemic arthropods are understudied species and likely to be highly threatened with extinction. Analysis of IUCN Red List assessments can be used to highlight important microhabitats requiring conservation for the effective management of island ...
Adam Sharp, Alan Gray
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Pleistocene divergence of Dinaric Drusus endemics (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae) in multiple microrefugia within the Balkan Peninsula

, 2009
The Balkan Peninsula is one of three major European refugial areas. It has high biodiversity and endemism, but data on the age and origin of its fauna, especially endemics, are limited.
Previšić, Ana, MLADEN KEROVEC, Mitrikeski, Petar T., CATHERINE WALTON, KuČiniĆ, Mladen, ANA PREVIŠIĆ, PETAR T. MITRIKESKI, MLADEN KUČINIĆ, Walton, Catherine; id_orcid, Kerovec, Mladen   +9 more
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Integrating climate‐change exposure and refugia into landscape planning: A practical guide

Conservation Science and Practice
Climate change is reshaping landscapes in ways that challenge conventional approaches to conservation and resource planning. The concept of climate‐change refugia—areas with the potential to buffer species and ecosystems from the effects of climate ...
Diana Stralberg, Douglas W. Lewis, Jessica Stolar, Gregory J. Kehm, Cameron F. Cosgrove, Donald G. Morgan, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Christine E. Kuntzemann, Angeles Raymundo, Zihaohan Sang, Leonardo Viliani, Zaid Jumean, Michelle Meier, Chelsea Enslow, César A. Estevo, Erin C. Fraser‐Reid, Elizabeth M. Campbell, Jennifer A. Grant, Sara Howard, Ilona Naujokaitis‐Lewis, Scott E. Nielsen, Carlos Carroll   +21 more
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A new microrefugial distribution of Fagus orientalis Lipsky. (Oriental Beech) in the Mediterranean Region (Antalya, Türkiye)

Turkish Journal of Forestry
Fagus orientalis Lipsky (Oriental beech) is a keystone species of temperate forests, distributed from the Balkans and Northern Anatolia to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with refugial populations in the Amanos Mountains and surrounding regions of ...
Ali Kavgacı, Emin Güzenge, Serhat Güner, Hüseyin Yılmaz   +3 more
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Modelling the location of interglacial microrefugia for cold-adapted species

Preslia, 2023
Tomáš Radoměřský, Přemysl Bobek, Matěj Man, Helena Svitavská Svobodová, Petr Kuneš   +4 more
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Disappeared ice, vanishing life: The end of the largest glacier of the Bergamo Alps (Italy) and the consequences for its endemic biodiversity

Annals of Glaciology
To date, the direct effects of complete glacier disappearance on the specialized fauna associated with this habitat have never been investigated in situ. The Trobio glacier, once the largest in the Bergamo Alps (Italy), completely vanished in 2023 due to
Barbara Valle, Stefano D’Adda, Riccardo Scotti, Mauro Gobbi, Marco Caccianiga   +4 more
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