Microclimatic Growth Rates of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans under Current and Future Climates: A Very High Spatial Resolution SDM for Bsal and Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) within Forest Habitats of the European Hotspot Area
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Mechanistic SDMs for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
2.3. Correlative SDMs for S. salamandra
2.4. Niche Quantification
3. Results
3.1. Microclimatic Habitat Suitability for S. salamandra and B. salamandrivorans
3.2. Niche Quantification
4. Discussion
4.1. Current Situation
4.2. Future Scenarios
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Climate Parameter | Bioclimatic Variables | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
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Annual mean temperature | bio1 | 0.43 | 0.73 | 0.11 |
Temperature seasonality | bio4 | −0.89 | −0.21 | −0.03 |
Mean temperature of the warmest month | bio5 | −0.33 | 0.63 | 0.59 |
Mean temperature of the coldest month | bio6 | 0.95 | 0.10 | −0.07 |
Temperature annual range | bio7 | −0.96 | 0.02 | 0.18 |
Mean temperature of warmest quarter | bio10 | −0.07 | 0.64 | −0.73 |
Mean temperature of coldest quarter | bio11 | 0.86 | 0.07 | 0.36 |
Eigenvalues | 3.65 | 1.40 | 1.06 | |
Explained variance | 52.12 | 20.03 | 15.17 |
Vol1 vs. Vol2 | Vol1 | Vol2 | Jaccard | Sorensen | Frac_Unique_1 | Frac_Unique_2 |
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Bsal.pos vs. S. salamandra | 24.79 | 75.14 | 0.30 | 0.46 | 0.08 | 0.70 |
Bsal.neg vs. Bsal.pos | 42.04 | 24.79 | 0.54 | 0.70 | 0.45 | 0.06 |
S.salamandra vs. Background | 75.14 | 152.89 | 0.47 | 0.64 | 0.03 | 0.53 |
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Deiß, F.; Ginal, P.; Rödder, D. Microclimatic Growth Rates of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans under Current and Future Climates: A Very High Spatial Resolution SDM for Bsal and Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) within Forest Habitats of the European Hotspot Area. Diversity 2024, 16, 510. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080510
Deiß F, Ginal P, Rödder D. Microclimatic Growth Rates of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans under Current and Future Climates: A Very High Spatial Resolution SDM for Bsal and Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) within Forest Habitats of the European Hotspot Area. Diversity. 2024; 16(8):510. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080510
Chicago/Turabian StyleDeiß, Felix, Philipp Ginal, and Dennis Rödder. 2024. "Microclimatic Growth Rates of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans under Current and Future Climates: A Very High Spatial Resolution SDM for Bsal and Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) within Forest Habitats of the European Hotspot Area" Diversity 16, no. 8: 510. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080510