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15 summaries in Climate & Habitat Change on Iberian lynx
Adapted conservation measures are required to save the Iberian lynx in a changing climate
PaperThis high-profile study coupled climate, prey, and disease dynamics with metapopulation modeling to project the fate of the critically endangered Iberian lynx. It found that standard reintroduction pl…
Fordham, D.A., Akcakaya, H.R., Araujo, M.B., Keith, D.A., Brook, B.W. · Nature Climate Change · 2013
Research overview: Mediterranean aridification and Iberian lynx habitat
OverviewThe Iberian lynx inhabits Mediterranean scrub and dehesa woodland in a region projected to become hotter and drier. This overview surveys how aridification, increased fire frequency, and shifting vege…
Research overview: assisted colonization and climate-tracking translocation for lynx
OverviewBecause climate is shifting where suitable Iberian lynx habitat will lie, conservationists have debated assisted colonization, deliberately establishing populations in areas projected to become suitab…
Research overview: assisted migration debate for climate-threatened cats
OverviewWhen species cannot track shifting climate fast enough, assisted migration, deliberately moving them to newly suitable areas, is debated as a last resort. This overview surveys the arguments for and a…
Research overview: climate-disease interactions in the Iberian lynx prey base
OverviewEuropean rabbit dynamics in Iberia are governed by an interaction of climate, vegetation, and disease, all of which bear on Iberian lynx survival. This overview surveys how temperature and rainfall in…
Research overview: climate-driven disease range shifts affecting wild cats
OverviewClimate change can expand the range of pathogens, parasites, and disease vectors, with potential consequences for wild cat health. This overview surveys how warming may alter the distribution of tick-…
Research overview: genetic management of the Iberian lynx under environmental change
OverviewHaving passed through a severe bottleneck, the Iberian lynx carries reduced genetic diversity, which compounds its vulnerability to climate and disease stress. This overview surveys how genetic monito…
Research overview: metapopulation viability modeling for the Iberian lynx
OverviewIberian lynx recovery has relied on metapopulation thinking, managing a set of connected subpopulations to spread risk and sustain gene flow. This overview surveys how population viability analyses in…
Research overview: monitoring Iberian lynx recovery against shifting baselines
OverviewTracking whether Iberian lynx recovery is keeping pace with environmental change requires sustained, standardized monitoring of cats, rabbits, and habitat. This overview surveys the census methods, ca…
Research overview: monitoring effective population size in fragmented felids
OverviewEffective population size, the genetically relevant number of breeders, is a key indicator of a fragmented population's resilience. This overview surveys how researchers estimate it for cats from noni…
Research overview: monitoring outcomes of climate-adaptive felid conservation
OverviewClimate-adaptation strategies, refugia protection, corridors, assisted colonization, need monitoring to know whether they work over the long timescales of climate change. This overview surveys the ind…
Research overview: population viability analysis under climate scenarios for cats
OverviewPopulation viability analysis estimates extinction risk by simulating a population's demography forward in time, and it is increasingly run under climate scenarios for threatened cats. This overview s…
Research overview: prey switching and dietary flexibility under climate stress
OverviewHow flexibly a cat can switch prey when its preferred species declines shapes its resilience to drought and habitat change. This overview surveys evidence on dietary breadth across felids, from specia…
Research overview: rabbit hemorrhagic disease and Iberian lynx prey collapse
OverviewThe Iberian lynx is a hyperspecialist on European rabbit, so rabbit population crashes from rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHDV, including the RHDV2 variant) and myxomatosis directly threaten the cat. Th…
Research overview: roads, fragmentation, and Iberian lynx connectivity
OverviewVehicle collisions are a leading cause of Iberian lynx death and a major barrier to the connectivity that climate-adaptive recovery depends on. This overview surveys how road networks fragment lynx ha…