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Titre :	Flood exposure for vertebrates in China's terrestrial priority areas for biodiversity conservation: Identifying internal refugia
Auteurs :	Eric I. Ameca y Juarez, Auteur ; Zhigang Jiang, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (199 JUL 2016)
Article en page(s) :	137-145
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Extreme weather events are likely to increase in the coming decades which,may have severe consequences on biodiversity. As conservation funding is limited, identifying priority areas for conservation of species prone to climatic impacts may improve the benefit of conservation investments. As part of its Biodiversity Action Plan, China is carrying out an initiative to evaluate new threats from climatic impacts by 2030 in Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation (PABCs). Focusing on floods, which are exhibiting an increasing trend in recent decades in the country, we generated information for such an initiative. We investigated contemporary flood exposure and species internal refugia for all amphibians, birds, and mammals within the 32 terrestrial PABCs of China. Amphibians comprised the greatest number of species at significant flood exposure followed by mammals and birds (similar to 90%, similar to 81%, similar to 52% of the total species richness in the country, respectively). However, availability of flood-free internal refugia >10% and

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