ArticleNature communications2023
Anthropogenic impacts on threatened species erode functional diversity in chelonians and crocodilians.
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- Synergistic and Additive Effects of Multiple Threats Erode Phylogenetic and Life History Strategy Diversity in Testudines and Crocodilia.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- CheloniansTraits: a comprehensive trait database of global turtles and tortoises.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Riverine Realities: Evaluating Climate Change Impacts on Habitat Dynamics of the Critically Endangered Gharial (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES-traded reptiles.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Taking advantage of reference-guided assembly in a slowly-evolving lineage: Application to Testudo graeca.PloS one · 2024Article
- Floristic Inventory and Diversity Assessment at Two Locations along the Shores of Cape Coast, Ghana.Scientifica · 2024Article
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Abstract
The Anthropocene is tightly associated with a drastic loss of species worldwide and the disappearance of their key ecosystem functions. The orders Testudines (turtles and tortoises) and Crocodilia (crocodiles, alligators, and gharials) contain numerous threatened, long-lived species for which the functional diversity and potential erosion by anthropogenic impacts remains unknown. Here, we examine 259 (69%) of the existing 375 species of Testudines and Crocodilia, quantifying their life history strategies (i.e., trade-offs in survival, development, and reproduction) from open-access data on demography, ancestry, and threats. We find that the loss of functional diversity in simulated extinction scenarios of threatened species is greater than expected by chance. Moreover, the effects of unsustainable local consumption, diseases, and pollution are associated with life history strategies. In contrast, climate change, habitat disturbance, and global trade affect species independent of their life history strategy. Importantly, the loss of functional diversity for threatened species by habitat degradation is twice that for all other threats. Our findings highlight the importance of conservation programmes focused on preserving the functional diversity of life history strategies jointly with the phylogenetic representativity of these highly threatened groups.
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