Assessing the capacity of endemic alpine water beetles to face climate change

1. Accurate assessments of species’vulnerability to climate change requireintegrated measurements of its different drivers, including extrinsic (the magnitude andrate of climate change) and intrinsic factors (organisms’sensitivity and adaptive capac-ity). According to these factors, aquatic insects restricted to alpine ponds may be espe-cially threatened by climate change. However, vulnerability predictions based on suchan integrative approach are scarce for alpine pond taxa. 2. We combined distributional, climatic data and experimental measurements of heattolerance and acclimation capacity of... Mehr ...