Global warning: challenges, threats and opportunities for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in high altitude habitats

Gobbi, Mauro (2020) Global warning: challenges, threats and opportunities for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in high altitude habitats. ACTA ZOOLOGICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 66 (Suppl.). pp. 5-20. ISSN 1217-8837

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Abstract

Aim of this paper is to provide the first comprehensive synthesis about ground beetle (Co leo ptera: Carabidae) distribution in high altitude habitats. Specifically, the attention is focused on the species assemblages living on the most common ice-related mountain landforms (glaciers, debris-covered glaciers, glacier forelands and rock glaciers) and the challenges, threats and opportunities carabids living in these habitats have to face concerning the ongoing climate warming. The suggested role of the ice-related alpine landforms, as present climatic refugia for cold-adapted ground beetles, is discussed. Finally, the needs to develop a large-scale High-alpine Biodiversity Monitoring Programme to describe how the current climate change is shaping the distribution of high altitude specialists is highlighted.

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