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

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

Publication: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-14
Number of pages12
JournalAquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries
Volume71
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

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

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