Release Date: 2024-05-31

Climate Change Impacts on Amphibians and Reptiles: Past, Present, and Future

Can Yilmaz (Author), Sezgin Karaman (Author)

Release Date: 2024-05-31

Many species extinctions have occurred in the Earth’s history, including five great mass extinctions. The phenomenon of climate change is likely to have profound effects on the diversity of living organisms. Globally, significant declines in biodiversity are being experienced. Especially ectothermal animals such as reptiles and amphibians are vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature and other [...]

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    Published inEcological Dynamics in the Face of Climate Change
    First Page205
    Last Page223
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.69860/nobel.9786053359258.12
    Page Count19
    Copyright HolderNobel Tıp Kitabevleri
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    Many species extinctions have occurred in the Earth’s history, including five great mass extinctions. The phenomenon of climate change is likely to have profound effects on the diversity of living organisms. Globally, significant declines in biodiversity are being experienced. Especially ectothermal animals such as reptiles and amphibians are vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature and other climate variables. Climate change triggers the spreading of a of a pathogenic disease, habitat degradation, which is a threat to the exctoterm animal life cycle. Amphibians and reptiles respond to these changes, such as range shifts and phenologic and physiological changes. Conservation and adaptation strategies to mitigate the impacts of human-induced climate change on species diversity will become more important in the coming decades. Although amphibians and reptiles are capable of adaptive responses to climate change at the species level, such as phenological changes and range shifts, species-specific conservation programs need to be developed urgently to minimize the effects of anthropogenic climate change and to protect species.

    Can Yilmaz (Author)
    Professor, Aydın Adnan Menderes University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5994-508X
    3Can YILMAZ is Professor in the Vocational School of Health at Hakkari University. He received Ph.D. in Biology from Aydın Adnan Menderes University and studied population genetic structure of loggerhead turtle in his Ph.D. His research interests involve population genetics and ecology of reptiles and amphibians. He has been conducted long-term conservation studies on green turtle, loggerhead turtle and the nile soft-shell turtle that nested in Turkey since 2001. He is also the director of Graduate Education Institute at Hakkari University.

    Sezgin Karaman (Author)
    Aydın Adnan Menderes University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8654-4452
    3Sezgin KARAMAN working as lecturer in Animal and Plant production department at Vocational School of Yüksekova. He received Ph.D. in Biotechnology about microbial enzyzmes in Aydın Adnan Menderes University. His has been working and doing reserach on sea turtle conservations and population genetics projects since 2013. He research inerest involve, enzyme biotechnology, conservations projects, population genetics and moleculer ecology of sea turtles.

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