Global warNing: challenges, threats and opportunities for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in high altitude habitats

Autor:	Gobbi, Mauro
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Aim of this paper is to provide the first comprehensive synthesis about ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) distribution in high altitude habitats. Specifically, the attention is focused on the species assemblages living on the most common ice-related mountain landforms (glaciers, debris-covered glaciers, glacier forelands and rock glaciers) and on the challenges, threats and opportunities carabids living in these habitats have to face in relation to the ongoing climate warming. The suggested role of the ice-related alpine landforms, as present climatic refugia for cold-adapted ground beetles, is discussed. Finally, the needs to develop a large-scale High-alpine Biodiversity Monitoring Program to describe how the current climate change is shaping the distribution of high altitude specialists, is highlighted. Comment: 6 figures. This is the pre-print version in the non-final form, accepted for publication on Acta Zoologica Hungarica after the editing changes are made
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06804 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv