The impacts of the exposure of cactus species of the genus Tacinga to climate change in the Caatinga biome
Augusto César Praciano Sampaio,
Arnóbio de Mendonça Barreto Cavalcante,
Fábio Suzart de Albuquerque
et al.
Abstract:Although some studies have investigated the effect of climate change in the Caatinga biome, Brazil, its impacts on cactus species are yet to be understood entirely. We assessed if cactus species in the Caatinga biome will benefit from or be harmed by climate change in the coming decades. We modeled the distribution of Tacinga inamoena and Tacinga palmadora, two cactus species native to seasonally dry tropical forest. We evaluated these species' range dynamics in two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP), SSP2 an… Show more
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