Climate change from an ectotherm perspective: evolutionary consequences and demographic change in amphibian and reptilian populations

• DOI: 10.1007/s10531-023-02772-y
• Publication Date: 2024-02-14T06:02:47Z
• Authors: Sofía I. Hayden B...; Mozes P. K. Blom
• Keywords: Ectotherm; Environmental change

Abstract Understanding how natural populations will respond to contemporary changes in climate is becoming increasingly urgent and of fundamental importance for the preservation future biodiversity. Among vertebrates, amphibians reptiles are more sensitive environmental perturbations than endotherms ectotherm diversity likely be disproportionally impacted by change. Notwithstanding concerns surrounding change resilience populations, accurately predicting population trajectories based on ecological physiological data alone remains challenging much can learnt studying have responded past. Genomic approaches now assay genetic at an unprecedented scale but date been relatively underutilised when demographic history reptiles. In this review, we first summarise changing climatic conditions may influence phenotype translate fitness dynamics. We then discuss relative role past shaping has traditionally approached a phylogeographic context expanding genomic resources species leveraged improve study demography many amphibian reptilian groups. An integrative approach that links known proximate effects due change, with ultimately enable us generate accurate models our ability assess