[EN] The representativeness of protected areas for Amazonian fish diversity under climate change

16 November 2020

In this paper, published in Aquatic Conservation, Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of PAs in representing the Amazon fish fauna under current and future climatic conditions. We used a macroecological approach to estimate the minimum size of the geographical range needed by each species to achieve long-term persistence, by a combined function of range size and body size, two ecological traits known to influence species extinction risk.
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