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Research article2009Peer reviewed

Potential impact of climate change on aquatic insects: A sensitivity analysis for European caddisflies (Trichoptera) based on distribution patterns and ecological preferences

Hering, D; Schmidt-Kloiber, A.; Murphy, J.; Lucke, Sofie; Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen; Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez, Manuel; Huber, Thomas; Graf, Wolfram

Abstract

The high fraction of potentially endangered species in southern Europe is a result of speciation during the Pleistocene. Species having colonised northern Europe afterwards have generally a large geographical range and are mainly generalists and thus buffered against climate change impacts.

Keywords

Ecoregions; endemism; springs; cold-stenothermy; flight periods; feeding types

Published in

Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries
2009, Volume: 71, number: 1, pages: 3-14
Publisher: SPRINGER BASEL AG

    Sustainable Development Goals

    Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Environmental Sciences
    Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources
    Ecology

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-009-9159-5

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/44590