The Distribution of Cool Spots as Microrefugia in a Mountainous Area. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 It has recently been proposed that microrefugia played an important role in species survival during past climate change events. However, the current distributions of microrefugia remain largely unknown.
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Topographic depressions can provide climate and resource microrefugia for biodiversity. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Microrefugia are often located within topographically complex regions where stable environmental conditions prevail. Most of the studies concerning the distributions of climate change-sensitive species have emphasized the dominance of cold air pooling over other environmental factors, such as resource availability. There is a shortage of information on
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Using in situ microrefugia to safeguard stringybark eucalypts from hot droughts
Conservation Science and PracticeFacilitating species persistence under climate change is a pressing issue. Refugia, places where the impacts of climate change may be less severe, can constitute the only option for in situ persistence for many taxa.
Chloé Bentze +3 more
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Karstic Microrefugia Host Functionally Specific Ant Assemblages [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Karst landscapes are among the topographically most complex systems with various microhabitats, where species can persist despite unfavourable macro-environmental changes.
Zoltán Bátori +15 more
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Microrefugia, Climate Change, and Conservation of Cedrus atlantica in the Rif Mountains, Morocco [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 This study reconstructs and interprets the changing range of Atlas cedar in northern Morocco over the last 9,000 years. A synthesis of fossil pollen records indicated that Atlas cedars occupied a wider range at lower elevations during the mid-Holocene ...
Rachid Cheddadi +20 more
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Microrefugia and species persistence in the Galápagos highlands: A 26,000-year paleoecological perspective. [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2013 The Galápagos Islands are known to have experienced significant drought during the Quaternary. The loss of mesophytic upland habitats has been suggested to underlie the relatively lower endemism of upland compared with lowland plant assemblages.
Aaron F Collins +2 more
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Microrefugia: Not for everyone [PDF]
AMBIO, 2015 Microrefugia are sites that support populations of species when their ranges contract during unfavorable climate episodes. Here, we review and discuss two aspects relevant for microrefugia. First, distributions of different species are influenced by different climatic variables.
Hylander, Kristoffer +3 more
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Enhancing Coral Survival on Deployment Devices With Microrefugia [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Surviving after settlement through the first year of life is a recognised bottleneck in up-scaling reef coral restoration. Incorporating spatial refugia in settlement devices has the potential to alleviate some hazards experienced by young recruits, such
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Hiding from the climate: Characterizing microrefugia for boreal forest understory species [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2019 AbstractClimate warming is likely to shift the range margins of species poleward, but fine‐scale temperature differences near the ground (microclimates) may modify these range shifts. For example, cold‐adapted species may survive in microrefugia when the climate gets warmer.
Greiser, Caroline +3 more
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Topographic complexity drives trait composition as well as functional and phylogenetic diversity of understory plant communities in microrefugia: New insights for conservation [PDF]
Forest EcosystemsTopographic complexity supports the maintenance of a high diversity of microhabitats, which may act as important ‘safe havens’ – or microrefugia – for biodiversity.
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